"Ground Zero N.Y.C." comes crashing through with heavy riffs and Alan Tecchio's unmistakable vocals, but the next three tracks all sound more like NON-FICTION than HADES, what would not be a problem if there were not a big HADES-logo on this album. "Pay The Price" then features some faster, heavier Metal with, not only for Tecchio deep and guttural Vox, before Mid-Tempo returns again and as nicely dark-atmospheric "It's A Wonderful Lie" is, as strange are the harmonies of the following "Become Dust".

"Downside" is extremely difficult to be put into words, but somehow I lack the thread in it, the cohesion of the single tracks, which just don't form a unit. One may think about HADES as one does, but still I somehow am disappointed, even though it's not a bad CD...