This is a joint project of Tim Sköld (formerly of Marilyn Manson and Shotgun Messiah) and Nero Bellum (Psyclone Nine). The music, as you might expect, lands in that industrial kind of zone. Much of this is very effective. The problem is, when you listen from start to finish, it has a tendency to start sounding the same. It almost seems like they wanted to make sure there were 13 songs, and included some filler to make that happen. It would be a stronger set if they pulled maybe three or four of the most similar tunes off, or added in some hard rocking, more guitar oriented things. A lot of times it feels like it should head into some serious hard rock, but instead we get more electronic based songs. Then again, people tend to listen to music one song at a time these days. From that perspective, everything here is solid.

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Now, this is more like it. The cut drives with a real power and rocking texture. It's not a paradigm shift, but it's meaner and harder-edged.