1. Stay
2. Beautiful and Useless
3. Alive
4. You
5. Stranger

I thought the band had called it a day when this popped through the letterbox. With the long gap between albums, the band clearly struggled to continue as a unit.

'Impact' was a party rock album that people seemed to latch onto as the Saviour of that genre. Expecting something along the same lines as "Impact", I stuck this in the CD player.

The opening track, and first single, from the album - "Stay" - grabs you by the throat and starts beating you about the head. Shit, this is heavy! Mainman David Victor is sounding seriously pissed. The sound is a mixture of heavy modern rock and David's classic rock vocals soaring over the top. It is a combination that will take established Velocity fans by surprise and shock some of the 'stick in the mud' classic rock elements of the fan base.

Next up is 'Beautiful & Useless' which does a wonderful job of summing up so much about modern culture. This one rocks out hard as well, but the chorus grabs you a little more this time. I love cynical lyrics on this track. This track possibly looks back more to the hard rock of the previous album.

"Alive" is a slow burning rocker that is dominated by David's soaring vocals. It maintains the power associated with the rest of the album. One noticeable fact is that the lead guitarist is taking a back seat. If this song had been on the debut album the lead guitarist would have had a lot more work to do.

Next up is "You" that is a party rock tune that has been considerably beefed up.

A sparse and melancholy start to "Stranger" gives it a brooding atmosphere, before it graduates to become another big slice of hard rock ala Van Halen meets Dio. It alternates between the two - the sparse quiet parts and the VH/Dio rock parts.