But, and you probably saw this coming, musical proficiency is nothing without the songs to back it up and here the song writing leaves much to be desired. The songs on the whole are completely unoriginal and even worse unmemorable, in fact the best track on the album is a cover of Maniac from the Flashdance soundtrack and even that was done better recently by Firewind. The original material just doesn't make any sort of impact, what hooks there are don't work and certainly don't stick in the brain or engender a need to sing-a-long and that, in a melodic rock album is probably the death knell. On the upside it's well produced and sounds sonically fine and basically it's not a terrible album by any means, it's just all been done before and done so much better.