2012 re-issue with different coverartwork, two bonus tracks and a new thick booklet with manypreviously unseen photos

Jack Starr was absolutely all over theplace back in the 80's. Just take a peek at the majority of thebands he's been a part of and you'll see. Its as if he was in theprocess of creating four to five different bands simultaneously.Virgin Steele was active and had released a few albums in the early80's, while Phantom Lord was starting up and had a few albums putout, the same for this band Burning Starr, the original band hestarted (self titled under his name now) was supposed to be thereal Virgin Steele and had a few releases under its belt too, theshort lived Strider would arise towards the late 80's, and who'sDevil Childe? Yeah, I have absolutely no idea what's going on here.He's just bouncing off the walls with different bands left andright. Apparently a lot of Burning Starr's material was taken fromthe more ill faded Phantom Lord. What I can determine is thatBurning Starr was probably his second strongest band that he hadforged back in the day, next to Virgin Steele. As always Jack Starrseems to make it apparently easy to get a solid line-up. With justabout everything he's been a part of, an excellent voice would besinging those soaring notes at ease. Mike Tirelli who would go onto live a pretty successful career in metal, does a fantastic jobhere. Like most vocalists under Jack Starr's radar, Tirelli is muchmore of a melodic singer than anything else. He's pretty comparableto John Leone (RIP) from Starr's Phantom Lord, or more infamouslyknown for his role on vocals for Attacker's "The Second Coming".Overall he's pretty similar to David DeFeis's old singing as well,just maybe not as over the top and as distinguished. Jack Starr ispractically a no brainer, though he doesn't really leap beyond anyboundaries, his performance is top notch with his excellent guitarwork. Both the bass and drums never really stand out as their ownforce, but they fill those gaps and completely fortify this album.And looks who's doing keyboards here! Virgin Steele's David DeFeishimself. Fans shouldn't get too excited just yet though, as there'snot nearly as much of a focus on the keyboards here as there alwayshas been with Virgin Steele. DeFeis seems to mainly fill his rolewith these piano driven interludes, Prelude in C Minor and Coda.From there he's pretty much just there for a little atmosphere fromtime to time, but it hardly ever stands out. For some this could begood news and for some bad. Though the notes on this album's infopage do note DeFeis was involved with the production, so its goodto have him around. Because of this its no surprise the productionis pretty good and very comparable to early Virgin Steele. As usualJack Starr's style always seems to be a little lop-sided (seemedlike this used to be the case for David DeFeis as well, back in theday). Sometimes he'll put out an incredibly awesome song that justscreams metal, and after that you might be hearing something thatsounds like nothing but hard rock. So it could probably be arguedthere's a little case of inconsistency here, just like early VirginSteele. Then again maybe he's just so extremely influenced by theclassics. The tracks Fire and Rain, Road Warrior, and Run for yourLife tend to gravitate towards this sound. Though honestly not badtracks, they do feel a little held back and or just too relaxed.The impressive solo's do save them from being 'bad' tracks however.Out of the three interludes here, Coda easily surpasses them all.Prelude in C Minor is purely all pianos, while M-1 is only guitars.Coda fuses them both and it works perfectly. The majority of thisalbum is pretty strong. Most tracks are faster paced with gallopingrhythm's and beats, topped off with some incredibly catchychoruses. For me the greatest track on here is hands down Light inthe Dark. Its a bit darker than the rest and gives off an extremelymajestic feel, Tirelli's vocals seem to be at their peak, and theatmosphere is just great. Definitely a track that really sticks toyour mind after listening to it. If you're a fan of Virgin Steele,especially their older works, it'd be extremely wise to checkBurning Starr out (specifically this album!). Its not that BurningStarr sounds like a copy-off or a rehash of what Virgin Steele was,just a very complementary band to their majestic style. You don'tget closer to Virgin Steele than Burning Starr does, and viceversa. Definitely one of Starr's better projects.

Track list:
1. No Turning Back
2. Light In The Dark
3. Fire And Rain
4. Call Of The Wild
5. Road Warrior
6. Prelude In C Minor-instrumental
7. Evil Never Sleeps
8. Path Of Destruction
9. M-1-instrumental
10. Avenging Angel
11. Run For Your Life
12. Coda-instrumental
13. Burning Starr-1997 remix
14. Metal Generation-1997 remix

Condition cover and cd: mint / stillsealed

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