It is always difficult for me to review a "guitar hero" album, cause I have problems to listen to a record ... without lyrics. Instrumental songs are not my favorite tracks, so you can imagine my mood when there are only instrumental tracks! I have decided to review this one as I am quite a fan of Jake E Lee (I still have in mind his great solos on Ozzy's video Bark At The Moon).

Exithouse (first track) is interesting and the guitar of Jake E Lee delivers strange sounds (distorted) and the rhythm is very "power metal". Second track, Demon A Go-Go, a kind of 70's psychedelic music mixed with a rhythm "à la" Pulp Fiction. Interesting also, not original, but Jake E Lee plays perfectly on this track.

Soulfinger, third track, could have been used for the television (reminding me Miami Vice jingle). The Rapture is much more conventional. It starts with an acoustic guitar sound (Nothing Else Matter is not very far away)and some woman lyrics, before the electric guitar of Jake E Lee accelerate the rhythm . The most interesting track on this cd ... for my taste of course.

Overall, I can really afford the "electronic" drum on A Fine Pink Mist, but that's another story... All music by Jake E Lee, but through out this record, I had this "déja-vu" feeling, somewhere else and not from the metal scene ... but lot's of things were not new for me.

If you like to hear guitar heroes playing with their instruments, I guess you should check Jake E Lee's A Fine Pink Mist.
If you don't like these type of record, this one will not change your taste ... for sure.