Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30508 in Digital Music Album
• Released on: 2009-05-15
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Customer Reviews

Excellent Solo Effort
Anybody who is reading this is obviously a fan of Tim "Ripper" Owens and his work with Judas Priest, Iced Earth, Yngwie, and Beyond Fear. This is his first solo album where Ripper controlled the whole project from writing to mixing. Overall, it's a little different IMHO from anything you have heard him do in other projects but at the same time the songs are of a very high quality. Definitely not crushing like Beyond Fear but like I said, I think most will like the approach. And of course, his vocals are stellar!

The guitar performances on this album are top shelf - rhythm and lead. The leads are extremely tasteful and well placed. It just all works. Just an incredibly well written project from TRO!!!

Great solo debut
This sounds like a mixture of what would have been the next Priest album with Owens with a little Beyond Fear/Malmsteen edge to it. Great album, but his whole speech saying this album is the first where he (Owens) creatively controlled everything etc yet it sounds like the Judas Priest/Malmsteen/Beyond Fear stuff he has done before. It's a great album totally I just don't see why he had to release a solo album, didn't he have all the creative control in Beyond Fear which is Owens best band since Priest. I also notice the Beyond Fear and Priest symbols on the cover art as well. Anyhow this album is a great debut from this amazing vocalist.

Played and Lost
I write few reviews, but when I do I review a product for what it is, as opposed to what it is not. I do not expect a Tim Owens solo disc to be a Judas Priest, Iced Earth, or Beyond Fear album, which was mediocre at best. In fact, I hardly care what style it is, so long as it's good. And simply put, this album is not good; it is bad.

When Blaze Bayley left Iron Maiden few expected much. He ended up delivering albums that easily surpassed his work with Maiden and each stands on its own. I was hoping Tim Owens would do the same. After all, the albums he did with Priest were fairly lame to begin with. As it turns out, Tim's apparent need to prove his song-writing abilities has proven nothing but an ability, for the most part, to write bad songs.

There are some decent musical moments, and an occasional song does succeed (to a point), such as No Good Goodbyes. All too often, however, good musical moments are not fully realized or are ruined by comically bad lyrics and Tim's mid-range warble.

A work of "art" (term used generously here) should not necessarily be judged on a pass/fail basis. However, a game is either lost or won. I chose to play Tim Owens' game and lost - $13.99 to be precise.