For me, this album is not the best thing that Manowar did, but also certainly not, as some have expressed, total scrap. I thought at first hearing: "What, that's the new Manowar album?" and found it just not as good. But now that I've heard it several times, I must say it's a good album, just only first getting used to the criticism with the long speech passages I feel partly that way. Finally, I can only say that I hope that on the next album Thor swings his hammer and the belt can be a big bang again.