This 12-track effort shows some very emphatic and thick rhythmic mosh anthems and groove-laiden hooks that pummel you to no end. The leads are explosive and despite a Paul Gilbert kind of flare, Sean has many influential weapons at his disposal like Friedman, Becker and maybe even some TSO/Savatage as far as Pitrelli and Oliva. Ironically, since we're speaking of Racer X, this album was mixed by the phenomenal Bruce Bouillet from the shred camp. I always thought he was undershadowed because of Gilbert and it pissed me off to no end because Bruce did some incredible stuff as well as the tandem was very reminiscent of Thorpe and McGee from Vicious Rumors.

I just had a good time with htis CD as far as the songwriting, the musicmanship and the diversity. Nothing tumultuous, arrogant, repetitive..just a smooth flow of alot of different ideas put to music, put to moods or put to the shredder....one album that's hard to judge just by the first few songs.