The reason why this album is such a great album is that most, if not all the songs are highlights. The songs are all consistent and follow the same style; no tricks or gimmicks. Even the Winter cover is well done. The first four tracks are all not only OVERKILL classics. They all play blistering mid-to upper-tempo riffs, catchy chorus lines with the occasional gang shouting, and Blitz blurting out the vocal like only he can. There are some slower tracks towards the end of the album, most notably New Machine and track 11, which wraps the album up perfectly as a thrash ballad.
Blitz puts more rasp into his vocals. There aren’t really any screeching falsettos on this album. Sid turns in another solid performance, although there is more straight-up double bass thrash drumming instead of rhythm changes and good stuff like that. The snare sound is a little thin, but it’s tolerable. The guitar duo vigorously shred those strings. Riff after riff (the ones in track 1 and track 10 are especially nice), lead after lead, both guitarists prove to be more than worthy replacing Gustafson. Also the bass guitar is loud in the mix again tearing it up and shouting giving the album that special OVERKILL flavour. With two guitars leading, the bass guitar takes a back seat rhythmically, but it’s still frolicking along in all its thumping glory. This album stands alone like a mountain climber finally reaching his destination. This is an impressive and enjoyable album.