Rumbling from Finland with their first album on the road to Sin City is the weapon of Fame, right n roll band of hard rock. ” Scandinavian has always been fertile ground for the classic hard rock, and Gog goes wave pushes Hellacopters and Gluecifer name two.

“Addiction of Fools” is quite an improvement over the band’s previous CD, “Binge & Purge.” The songwriting is somewhat more complex, the production value is definitely higher, and both lead vocalist Bryan Erickson and guitarist Michael James Torok have advanced in their skills considerably since 2001.

Finally, someone pulled together the right talent to compile this tribute to the greatest hard rock band of all time. The musicians are a “who’s who” of 80’s and 90’s rock, representing Kiss, Motley Crue, Rainbow, Great White,!–more–> Slaughter, Ratt, Night Ranger, Quiet Riot, David Lee Roth Band, etc… The album opens with Dweezil Zappa doing a very credible cover of one of my EVH favorites – “Unchained”, followed by Doug Aldrich CRANKING on “I’m the One”. (Doug gets the award for best Eddie-clone).