If you don't know the band WARMEN, I guess you need to touch up on your Heavy Metal history. WARMEN is the band of keyboardist Janne Wirman. He came to fame as one of the musicians if the late and great CHILDREN OF BODOM, the brainchild of Alexi Laiho. WARMEN first came to the scene in 1999, closely followed by their debut album "Unknown Soldier" in 2000. Now, some 25 year later the band is ready to unleash their seventh studio album to the world. It has been named "Band Of Brothers" and when you do listen to what the band is playing it kind of makes sense, as I don't think that before this one WARMEN ever came this close to the original sound of CHILDREN OF BODOM as they have succeeded in doing now. Well, I'll have to narrow it down a bit, as I do mean the earlier sound of CHILDREN OF BODOM. So, before they tried to be heavier than thou, but solely relied on the quality of Heavy Melodic Death Metal with Thrashy influences they were playing. And I have to say that on "Band Of Brothers" WARMEN have done just that, and it works. The usual guitar solos have been mostly replaced by keyboard solos, but for the rest the songs are simple, solid, straight forward and without any unhidden surprises. What does help is that, as usual, the sound is impeccable, every hit of the instruments is heard and the vocals are in the right ballpark. It makes listening to "Band Of Brothers" a doddle. But therein also lies my reservation. WARMEN might be solid and straight forward, but they have forgotten that an album of over 40 minutes also needs variety and some unexpected elements. And to be quite frank; they are not to be found on "Band Of Brothers". And even though I am really liking what I hear I fear that WARMEN has not given me anything to rave about, to make this album anything different form anything they have before this one. The thing is, if you like what WARMEN has done before, you will eat up this one as well. If you're one of those people, like me, who would like to see and hear progress in the music, you might be disappointed. As far as I'm concerned, the fact that the band has gotten better at copying the sound of the former band and inspiration for WARMEN hasn't make me overly enthusiastic about "Band Of Brothers". It's just a solid record. Nothing more, nothing less.