Typically usual record outlets here Down Under having trouble getting anything in both CD and LP delayed for foreseeable future ugh
Anyway constantly streaming and enjoying the discussion here and a few things have come to mind...
- Maintain his original version of If Eternity should've remained a 7" B-side, bonus kinda collectors thing (and again did not know Gus G provides the solo thanks for that bit of info Wolfking!)
- Definitely hear some those Skunkworks references but fer my ears most comparisons are blatantly Accident and Chemical.
- Face In The Mirror is a skip for me, WAY too borrowed from his previous work.
- Regardless any similarities highlights are Mistress Of Mercy, exactly what I had hoped for with this release, Many Doors To Hell likewise brilliant sounds like a heavier
Devil On A Hog, Fingers In The Wound, and while the intro worried me agree Resurrection Men, and Shadow Of The Gods which certainly makes you wonder what may have been of the Tremors right!?
- Still not digging the spoken word verses of Rain On The Graves and that's coming from a big fan of all the Bruce records, including Balls To Picasso where be was dabbling in all sorts this kinda stuff and need more time with the closing track.
- Agree the production is a little washy and lacking the punch these songs deserved.
- Bruce sounds fantastic regardless the washy sound and personally not finding anything oversung here. I'd say about on par with the recent Maiden releases!?
- The packaging looks tremendous \m/
Overall not quite the album I had hoped for but tbf big shoes of his own to fill, and for a record that had been gestating for some 15 years on and off the ebb and flow isn't too bad. But digging lots of it, will make a solid addition to the Dickinson solo collection glad we finally have it after all these years!