I think that Tommy ReinXeed Johansson is a very gifted singer/ guitar player/ composer / producer. I think he's one of the most promising underground shining stars, but in the same time concerning this release, I also think that he did too much things lately and overexposed himself. A talent doesn't work well once diluted. First, it's looks like a familly affair, as 3/4 of the REINXEED line-up is acting here. CHARLIE SHRED like EDWIN DARE isn't a real person but the incarnation of the music made by this young Swedish band.

In fact it seems that it's more or less the side-project of the other REINXEED's guitar player Mr. Calle Sunberg who handles the vocals in both fashions: A regular high pitched but also a more raspy and more original way, influenced by James Hetfield, in his late and contemporary manner ("The Rose"). The sound production is dynamic & clear but, there is a big issue - at least for me: it's the constant / almost non-stop use of the Auto Tune FX on the lead-vocals trackswhich is horrendous. I think it ruins all the organic feelings and the credibility. Too much electronic-perfection-correction-tricks kills the magic ot the music. Paradoxically, if the players are ok some guitar-solos are quite bad and even out of tune ("Welcome To Hell").Far from the quality standards normally displayed in the past Reinxeed's productions. Strange contradiction we have here: too much rigor & perfection on one side, and an amateurish and laxist behavior on the other? I think as the producer, Tommy should have fixed & resolved these problems. So for me the blame goes to Mr. Reinxeed Johansson and knowing how high are generally his exigencies, it left me perplexed.

The Japanese edition contain a cool bonus track though: A cover from Swedish compatriots SABATON's "Into The Fire" out of 2005's "Primo Victoria". The rest of the songs are OK, in the Euro Power Metal tradition. The pace is not too fast even if some of the riffs are quite speedy, the drums part are fresh and diverse,so no double-kick-overload, this time. A good thing indeed. Not too much Symphonic-neo-classic interlude either, except for the good instrumental track: "The Ancestors Guide". Even if the disc is not really imaginative and creative it certainly has it's moments but it could have been much better without those technical issues which precipitated this title at the bottom of the 'third rate' section.

Luckily, the others projects to come,the one with DAMNATION ANGELS' singer, Per Fredrik"Pellek" Äsly called PELLEK "Bag Of Tricks" and the mainly,the new REINXEED album "Welcome To The Theater" seems to belong in another higher category: The first -World-Pro-Metal-League-that Tommy and his friends should never leave off.