Right, this is not so much going to be a review of a CD from a UK rock band as it is going to be a call to promoters and others who might want to send us their material to get the genres right.

This site is called The Power of Metal Webzine. Power is a word that you want to notice and the word Metal is pretty important too.

What I have here next to me on the desk is not a metal album. It’s not even hardrock. My mum’s more metal than this, for f***’s f***!

It’s not metal in its attitude; it’s not metal in any way.

Yeah, this is where it gets a bit complicated, because ‘metal’ doesn’t have to be all racing guitars and chopped off heads – it’s also an attitude. Although not something that we’d normally review (and not necessarily something I personally like), Nick Cave is somehow metal. Tory Amos is metal. I know I’m probably getting blurred now in your view, but work with me here…it’s about an attitude and I can't explain it exactly.

I like one solo on this album (in the track Family of Nations). That’s it. The rest is so horribly standard pop rock with a semi-alright singer that I will not listen to it ever again.

And it’s not the band’s fault. They do what they do for the not-at-all-metal-people who like this. It just shouldn’t have been skipped to this site and thus a rating is not fair.

Next – and make sure it’s metal, please.