Martin has been a professional musician since gaining his degree from the Frankfurt Musikwerkstatt in 1996 so, unsurprisingly, his playing is of the highest order. The expansive and descriptive bottleneck intro track Red Sun leads into a fuzz and wah-wah extravaganza on Pumpgun. At just a couple of minutes long there's no chance of boredom setting in and we move swiftly into the modern surf rock of Killer Surf Attack. In similar style we later get Hurricane, Tornado and The Haunted Beach. Meanwhile I Wana Be Evil takes us down a modern blues boogie route, Highway features a flowing, rich slide lead over a background of organ and Black Moon is a modern guitar ballad heavy on sustain and volume pedal.

There's a lighter atmosphere about Long Haired Country Boy which is in danger of giving country rock a good name and has a touch of The Allmans about it. El Gringo has a rockabily beat and a spag-west flavour. Hammond provides the interest in the extended blues rock solo that is Junkfood, Fat Cat being a longer, more funky workout with less direction. Space Blues represents the presentable side of heavy rock guitar music, the riffs not being too grungy and the lead not taken OTT. The Big Sleep builds from slow ballad to fret-melting guitar showcase as a finale. This is a fine album of modern guitar. It's all original, yet all familiar and certainly most enjoyable.