I have a huge problem with the amount of monumentally mediocre tunes here. They're everywhere, not including the first two bullets, mind you. So after dropping a duo of boiling, riff-infested power metal gospels, Burning Point turns off the jets and settles for incredibly bland hard rock. It's almost humorous how hard they crash, as if Burning Point finally found a vault of tedious guitar work and monotonous crap and decided to bask in its glory. Its vapid, irksome, trashy excuse of glory. Lots of fancy guitar work too, but there's really no point if the spine of the music itself has crumbled beneath the weight of dead choruses and song structures that sink like an anvil in a tub of lard. On the flip side, the sound quality is very good, and Pete Ahonen's vocals are sharp and explosive; not much else can be said in a positive light, however.

Using a random example, "Everdream" is like a Tony Martin-era Black Sabbath b-side rocker coiling beneath generic riffs, uninventive keyboard cycles, and other banes previously listed in this sub-par excuse of a review. "Losing Sleep" performed quite the contrary on me, I'm afraid, and "Lost Tribe" sounds like it was salvaged by some faded high-school 80s rock band. Few acceptable pieces lurk between the usual mountains of boredom ("Holier Than Thou," "Heaven and Hell") but the lack of exceptional material sucks the life right out of "The Ignitor," and Burning Point is clearly at the opposite end of their desired position on the Kelvin scale with this insipid display of sleepwalking power metal with banal hard rock touches.