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Ex Manowar drummer Rhino on drums and vocals. This is the follow up to their 2010 album called "Kingdom of Evil". Alex Stephens (guitar) and Jesse Ringo (bass), complete the line-up. You can compare this line-up with the band Exciter. Drumming and singing isn't an easy job, but fortunately that isn't a problem in the studio.

The first track is a fast track with fine drumming and it has a power metal touch. Second track "Sondrio" is slower and has a different style; Keyboards reminding of the 70's and riffs and singing in a kind of Black Sabbath/Rainbow style - an epic rather symphonic track. The galloping track "Queen Warrior" is again a bit faster and the 70's keys brighten up the song. "What Have You Become" is a more groovy and slower track. "White Star Line" starts with acoustic guitars before it develops into a guitar driven track.

I have to mention the singing of Rhino; he does a real good job. "The Enemy" has a spoken part in it taken from an interview with Charles Manson, but it doesn't add a thing to the song if you ask me. The next track I want to mention is "Redemption", which reminds a bit of a slow Black Sabbath track, in their 'Headless Cross' era. "Turning the Stone" is a ballad, but not one I will remember after a few weeks. The album ends with one of the heavier and faster tracks. This is a track that can best be compared with songs on Judas Priest's 'Painkiller' album.

Final conclusion is that this is a rather variable album with influences of 70's rock, modern power metal and early eighties NWOBHM. Like Rhino's other release Death Dealer, this is again a good album and perhaps a little less heavy than Death Dealer, but a must for every true heavy metal fan.

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