Unnecessarily long album IMO. This has good material, but as 60mins album it has plenty of average and boring moments too, especially after the seventh song "Mind Control". "Mind Control", "Lightyears From Home" and "Black Sun" are pretty killer songs here, but majority of the songs are quite meh.

This is awesome, simply awesome, powerful metal album where all songs are metal, no fakes, no ballads, no mistaces and weak songs, its like heavy best of album from heavy band. Its amazing

At this point Primal Fear started to get it right. They try to give some variation and the songs are better crafted. There are some fillers here but overall this is a great power metal album with some of Primal Fears best tracks (Mind Control, Fear, Magic Eye). Klaus (the drummer) was a long time the huge lowpoint in Primal Fear but at this album his drumming is not that bad.

Same as previous 4 albums, 5 good songs, rest is not worthy of more than one listen.

Written by GrimReaper85 on 28.06.2022 at 09:31

Same as previous 4 albums, 5 good songs, rest is not worthy of more than one listen.

and yet you rate it an 8 (which means "very good" here on MS)

I know, it's hard to rate these albums. For myself I just take the good songs and make a compilation. Would need at least half a rating to properly rate these albums.
7 seems quite low for me for any Primal Fear album, all are at least 7.5. 5/10 good songs doesn't mean 5 rating for me, but 7.5.
For ratings I don't like to deviate from average ones anyway, be it here or on IMDb. Probably only 5-10% albums and movies I would rate with at least 1 score difference.