This did exceed my expectations; just look at the band image and ask would guys looking like this play material as good as this. Well they did play pretty good and the guitar solos sound especially good. Comparison to Dio the commenters are making on youtube comments applies both to vocals and music.

I wasn't aware of this album being here, but yeah. Back in the day I found this thing through Doug Marks who plays guitar here, he's the guy who made those popular straight to VHS guitar lesson videos back in the 80's and 90's, I think they were called "Metal Method" or something. The dude's killing it here.