WOE from Gothenburg, Sweden are a Rock/Metal fused band with ferociousness intensity and full of epic. Sounding like a less toned down version of KILL CONFIRMED (in places, but still sounding superb) still the band can produce a fine Rock album with that taste of hard, full on Metal in the air, very unique and just a hard hitting, damn cool band. By the time I started digging the album a couple of tracks in, sounding like the mighty ROUGH JUSTICE too. A nice fusion.

This was a very easy album to get into and especially easy to grow on me, WOE knows how to rock, literally, hard and heavy, almost having a bit of a BLACK LABEL SOCIETY fused in too, it's a nice jam with damn fine vocals to boot when they really get going, especially a few tracks in they get higher and more powerful, probably my highlight as well as the straight heaviness with the instrumentation. Pure power through this masterful gem.

From catchy lyrics to the fist pounding awesomeness of the instrumentation, this really makes me feel more open minded to the smaller bands who definitely need the attention more than the bigger bands. I will always say this, always support your local bands, seeing them live to buying merchandise, it helps the industry and certainly the bands, if not, you will miss great bands such as WOE who provided me with a fine album to review and enjoy forever more.

At first I thought, hmm, a generic band name, but these kind of bands usually pull out the best kind of material if done rightly, and WOE did just that. This is a band who can pull of a fine live show I am most certain of that because I've seen a good number of Rock bands in my day and they have always mostly delivered, the ones sounding like WOE anyway! This is probably just my imagination but I hear a mini-solo by the end of the album which sounds like BLACK SABBATH's "Children Of The Grave" which is very cool for me, naturally I rocked out to that bit hard. So, it's good to have a modern age sounding similar riff come out in this album. I think the main attraction is the lyrics, catchy and rough, high pitched and rhyme brilliantly with the instrumentation. It's a class album. Hard and heavy extremity shows that WOE mean business and that's the reaction I had listening to this album a good few times before review.

Before I close this album every song is a fine Rock classic but the best ones I found myself jamming to the hardest the most would have to be "Pick You Up" which has some of the best vocals on the album, high pitched quality which is definitely the highlight for me on this album. "All Alone" is also a prime example of the catchiness I have been mentioning twice over, hard heavy vocals by the great Jonny Zasella and just straight up brutality and pounding instrumentation. Very tasty.

"Personal Hell" and "Poetic Justice" are also both prime examples of the brutality and catchiness, trust me, with an open mind and a heavy heart you will be enjoying this classic album in no time. It doesn't take long to "grow on you" instead it takes not long to leave you pounding!

Nonetheless, with Hard Rock there's not much else to say apart from it will kick your arse, leaving you energetically drained through the power and excitement Hard Rock usually gives off and WOE did just that. Slamming power in your face making you headbang. (enjoyably). Fairly lengthened,  "...It's WOE Time" is a lesson in Hard Rock minority and shouldn't be passed up, especially when offered, like me!