Mercyful Fate/King Diamond guitarist Hank Sherman has gone American, at least in his music style! Why? I don't know and can't think of any good reasons, or even just plain reasons. This has a very American street attitude going on. Uhhh...

Ex-Original Sin vocalist Edgar Paul Allen sings on this one and does it well with his hard rock voice. It's refreshing to hear a good vocalist on this kind of music. Mr Allen has also penned all lyrics and they deal with drugs, racial hostility, well, American every day life. And since the music is simple and repeating with "hard" riffs, there must be this stupid repeating on lyrics too. A fine example is 'Stuck on It', which doesn't include much more than repeating the title of the song! Well, points for the guy's voice.

As I mentioned, the music is very American sounding. Simple attitude riffing and a lot of pointless guitar solos and very rhythmic compositions (drums are played by Mercyful Fate's Mr Holm). The band haven't created anything new with their music. There's some reggae (or something like that) parts, too. Pro-Pain does this ten million times better and they are totally plausible. Virus 7 aren't. And that's the biggest problem. This might go down at a festival, under a heavy influence of alcohol, but not at home, not easily. Sound is good and hard, but it doesn't help the music, which sinks in abyss of mediocrity and isn't hard enough by itself. By the way, booklet is in "the top 5 worst booklets I've ever seen", easily!

I do not find any good music here, simple as that.

Rating: 2 (out of 10) ratings explained

Reviewed by Lane
06/05/2002 12:49