Indulge me for a moment before I get to the actual review of this CD. To see where I'm coming from, you have to take into account the history of the band--full disclosure, Tantric was one of my favorite bands pretty much from the time they came out, and it was disappointing that there was such a lull between releases. Once upon a time, there were three guys rounding out a band called Days of the New, who quit or were fired depending on the story you hear. What else was there to do besides grab a vocalist and create a new band? Get a platinum record? Awesome. Record a follow-up that gets depressingly little attention? Well, there's only so much you can do when your label doesn't do much for you. Record a third CD... wait, here's where things go downhill. Instead of getting to release the CD, you have issues with your label, which is also having legal issues of its own. The three who were originally members of Days of the New individually left the band for varying reasons, leaving vocalist Hugo Ferreira to figure out what to do. The solution: hire a new band and, by and large, record a whole new CD rather than releasing a CD full of songs written with departed members.(continued...)