Guitarist Chris Impellitteri made a cult album some years ago with singer Graham Bonnet called Stand In Line. Due to requests from Japanese fans, they decided to join forces once more. The final product reminds mostly (because of the typical voice of Bonnet) of Alcatrazz. The biography mentions a juvenile Rainbow, but since the sound of Impellitteri is completely different from Blackmore, this is not one of the things that comes to my mind. The Vivian Campbell sound and riffs sometimes remind of Dio’s classics like “We Rock” (Perfect Crime).

The production and sound are typical eighties, as are the compositions and influences. Sometimes reminding of the aforementioned Alcatrazz and Dio, and when Mr. Impellitteri really gets going at full speed, the Helloween bell starts ringing, and although Bonnet never uses his voice that way, the choruses also start going in that direction.

Even some Eddie Van Halen riffs are combined with marching music in “What Kind Of Sanity”.

Plenty of variety in the traditional way, with a riff and vocal highlight (what a throat!!) in “United We Stand” (although the lyrics are very simple and nationalistic in this one). A pity that one of the songs without ‘twenty-thousand-notes-per-minute’ solos (“Why Do They Do That”) is one of the most boring songs on the album. Most tracks on the album have one or two things, which make them great, but also something that doesn’t really fit. Not even one real “pearl”, from the cooperation of these two musicians, and a very capable band.