An okay album, but HIGHLY overrated..

Review Score: (4/10)
This album and everything about this band was terribly overrated and then some. From the way this was talked about one would have expected some album to surface similar to another Appetite For Destruction or Deep Purple Machinehead that would knock the world to its knees and "bring back" hard rock to the masses. Highly untrue.

First off, the production is horrible. Everything sounds droned out. There are a few catchy type tunes but overall this is not, at least to me, one of those albums where you wanna hit replay on one or more of the tracks because they were so good. It is also a disappointment to hear Slash, a great hard rock guitarist, playing mostly alternative type guitar work. Overall this is basically STP meets B-rate GNR. Not terrible, but nothing GREAT by any standards.

Again, it was overhyped and now the promoters and fans alike have to try and accomodate that hype. The fact of the matter is, is this is medicore. Nevermind a band like the Scorpions have released a far better new album that has seen little if no hype or promotion. This will probably be the only release from this line-up -- SOONER OR LATER you will see the original GNR (hopefully with Adler, too) and STP line-ups back together.

Id give this maybe a 2.5 outta 5. Anybody who rates this as a masterpiece couldn't hit sand if they fell off a camel.

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