Edinburgh's Vantage Point turn in a CD that's exactly what you'd hoped it would be – no frills, straight down the line, mighty and muscular Classic Heavy Metal. Thirteen rock solid tracks showcase their mastery of metal as the twin guitar-led quartet rampage, rage and race through a debut album that's a headbangers heaven. From the opening instrumental intro that leads into the first song, “Gaydar”, the band provide you with everything that the album holds – huge riffing, storming rhythms, searing guitar licks, dual guitar interplay and all toped off with a powerful set of vocals from singer and bassist Murray Graham. “Motor Man” has echoes of classic Saxon while much of the album will have an undoubted appeal to fans of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. The guitar leads, breaks, riffs and solos are outstanding throughout, and this is real Classic Rock as it should be played, produced, arranged and heard. “Devil's Spawn” features a riff that could level mountains with a strident electric bass pounding over crunching drums as the guitar swirl and a high register vocal takes the song into flight. But the song twists and turns so that it's chorus, hook and riff takes an unexpected direction before triumphantly finishing as it began, the whole thing sounding so natural and flowing, a mark of their arranging talents as rock writers. The long-standing stage favourite “Gripped By The Throat” is given a no-holds-barred rendition with pummelling rhythms leading into fierce and clipped riffing before the whole thing drives headlong to oblivion as the pace accelerates and the vocal tears away over a sea of molten guitar riffs, that vocal loud, clear and every bit as worthy as a Halford or a Dio in its execution, the lyrical imagery every bit a captivating as the hooks. Song-wise we're in a kind of science fantasy-goes-goth horror otherworld in terms of the lyrics, every bit the epitome of what makes true heavy metal into something that's greater than the sum of its parts. Throughout a rip-roaring album, there's not a less than engaging second on the whole thing with the band more than succeeding in capturing its rock and metal stage attack on a studio based album, and an essential addition to the collection of any fan of Classic Rock.