As a music critic, one has to bring up the "originality issue" while reviewing this disc. Does the Christian music scene need a "sanctified Ozzy?" Do we need another copycat "Christian version" of someone else? Obvious answers aside, most of us will want to own a copy of this for novelty reasons. We can play if for our friends and say, "Hey, check out the new Ozzy album."
"America Wake Up" is a rip-off of the Sabbath riff of "War Pigs." The title track is more like the first two Ozzy solo albums, with biting 80's metal riffs. Some of the other tunes, like "Ichabod," are so slow that they don't hold interest as long. Maybe if that slow bass line was a bit nastier in the mix...
Lyrically, David tries to get the listener to think about what he's being fed. If the music wasn't so dated, he'd hold the listener a lot longer, though.
Other coverage for this album
Dead Zine 2003Reviewed by NecRoSarXI'll be brutally honest, here. I was giddy when I received this CD about a year ago. I kept hearing such good things about this CD. Myself being somewhat of semi-Ozzy Osbourne fan in my high school days, I was expecting much from this (the ads were sporting this as the "Christian Black Sabbath and Ozzy"). On the plus side, it is, very much, almost an uncanny carbon-copy of the Oz-meister.…Heaven's Metal #43Reviewed by Jeff LottCan anyone say Ozzy Osbourne? I could have sworn that, somehow, Ozzy got on this tape by accident. On this advance copy the tape doesn't specify who sings or who plays what, but it is quite evident that Ozzy has played an influence here--in particular, the vocals. This is a very good tape. Looking over David's bio-sheet, I wonder how he even got to where he is today. It's obvious now though, that…Similar sounding releases
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