The opening title-track is thundering straight and double-bass-driven through my speakers, has a great vocal-line, so who likes Power Metal and doesn't feel appealed by this song, should better have a meeting with his ear-specialist... Roughly in the same vein we also have "From Dust To Life", straight and swift.

That the band around former HELSTAR-fronter James Rivera can do more than just speed ahead, is proven by the mid-paced "The Watcher", the very varied "The Suffering", the riff-laden "Storm Clouds" (including a very nice acoustic passage in the middle) and the closing "Vanished", which starts out balladesque, but then develops into a thundering double-bass-track.

Who already liked the debut, can get this one without second thought, all connoisseurs of forged steel in general should check out "Transition" at the very least.