Imagine Nashville Pussy minus, unfortunately, the hot chicks, but with two great guitarists, a bludgeoning rhythm section, a stupendous singer, and great songs.
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.