drakanripper wrote:
I really felt it could have been 1 album.
My cut would be a seven song set something like this:
A King for a Thousand Years
The Invisible Man
Born of Judgement day
Mrs. God
The Shade in the Shadows
Occassion Avenue
Light the Universe
It's not that the other tracks are bad... just felt it could have been more solid as a single disc. Either way - I gave it the pretty good. It has been getting lots of listening lately

Whoawhoawhoawaitaminute no "My Life For One More Day"??? That is far and away the best song on there, reminding a bit of "We Burn" on TTOTO except more epic and featuring an absolutely
killer thrash riff in the middle. The guitars sound absolutely perfect and the way the drums work it is spectacular - groove defined. By far the highlight of the album.
But in any case, yes, I am totally for trimming the fat on there and even shortening the two epics a bit. In particular they should've cut "Shade in the Shadow" and "Get It Up", being two of the worst tracks they've written in many years, they're just so flat-out completely goddamn bland and uninspired to a degree that they become painful listens.
I should do a set of my own too, but I need to spin the album again before I do that.