The FIRST thing you need to know about this release from Conquest is that you have to listen all the way through. You can judge this one by one, two or even three songs. Plain and simple, Conquest is metal. You can call some Power Metal, some a bit more Hardcore, some is Thrash. One might ask, it sounds like a band without an identity. I don't thinkt that's the case, the overall theme of the "End Of Days" is dark and very "Metal".

Probably the biggest mistake was putting "Feel My Pain" first on the CD. To me it's a dated Pantera-Style song that is typical of American Metal. After that the CD actually gets better! They have some shorter faster tunes like "It's All Over" and "Forever Free", then some epic Classic Metal like "Killer Machine" and "Revelation (Soul Keeper). They actually do both styles very well as their Priest influences really stand out.

All the players are very good, the drumming is extremely solid and the guitars are always doing something interesting. The vocals are more of a growl for the most part, but singer Derrick Brumley does have some nice range at times. The songs all well written as well. Bottom line they are a very good American Metal band that seems ready to take a bigger stage! They seem to really have come a long way in a short time, so who knows how far these guys can take it.