I gotta say this: guitar tone is great, bass lines are cool, and the lyrics during the verses are all really great I think. But if power metal is one of the few metal genres where the verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/chorus structure works, the chorus just doesn't draw me in that much. Where I don't need that structure is in an epic tune or a tune that ebbs, flows, and evolves. But this is a pretty straightforward power metal song with a chorus that just isn't all that great, lyrically or melodically. And compared to some of Edguy's more amazing choruses that make me love this band, yeah, it's not that great.
I think my bias on hating their most recent material seeps through too, since I want them to be so much better now than they really are, given how much I loved Hellfire Club (which is my first album by them, and was new when I bought it), and love their earlier material once I found it too. It certainly has more of a heavy metal production, which is good - the guitar tone is not that far removed from Judas Priest's Painkiller (just the tone, not the riffing), and the solo was good and economical.
This is the worst I've heard from this band - nay, I say every ham-fisted ballad they've plastered the recent albums with are definitely the worst they've ever done. But it's certainly not the best by any means. Of course, I'll give the new album a listen; but I'm still not taking them very seriously any more.
