Children of Bodom’s Alexi Laiho still rips shit up on his geetar, and Kimberly Goss is belting it out more believably, but there’s still something missing.
Ex-Quicksand and once-temporary Deftones bassist Sergio Vega discovers that playing pop rock songs a la Elliott Smith and The Byrds is more liberating and fun.
Savatage’s classic line-up, this album’s main reason for existence is to hail the band’s fallen original guitarist Criss Oliva, killed in a car crash in 1993.
Ex-Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille returns as singer/guitarist for this straight rock surprise. Without the trappings of glam, ya realize C.C. sounds pretty rock.