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Their Rock Is Not Our Rock (Bonus CD) (Dig)

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songs are nearly as good. I'd give it five stars (and make them one of my favorite bands) if they could find sixth gear - really great bands always manage to go a little bit further than seems possible, just when you think they're going all out.

This is the real deal. I'm talking rock-n-roll swagger with great vocals. If you like BLS,Motorhead or music with actual singing grab this disc now! Personal favs are sundown, it flies again and hellspeak. One of the best discs of 05/06. Also pick up their last cd "The Great awakening". Save the saved for iraq!

Nice to hear old school metal in a fresh format. This album rocks! If you like Dio, Priest, Sabbath, etc, you'll like this album. No hair bands here, just straight-up metal. My personal favs on this album: It flies again, Sundown, In the end, and Under the Thunder. Note, the 2nd CD listed on this page is a mix CD with multiple bands on the Liquor and Poker label. Nice mix with bands I've never heard of other than Fireball Ministry, nice addition to the CD purchase. I agree, probably Top 5 best metal albums of 2005/2006. BTW - Saw them open for Dio a few years back, kicka-- show.

I really liked this band after picking up Second Great Awakening. This is like SGA on Prozac. The songs sound almost identical to SGA but they don't go anywhere and drag and drag. I've tried with this CD but end up yanking it out after the third song or so in frustration. Some of it is just painful. Whoever produced this album let the band sleep walk through the recording. Literally, it sounds like the band is sleepy. If you haven't heard Second Great Awakening, please do, and this album will pale in comparison.

Lots of SABBATH worship here - bluesy, swaggering 70s rock with thick, crunchy riffs, and a singer who sounds a hell of a lot like Ozzy at times. Nothing that references some of Sabbath's more expansive, progressive tracks, though - these are all more compact, straightforward pieces. It'd be nice to see them stretch a bit more.

I Got This Cd Last Christmas And I Havent Had Anything Else In My Cd player Since Then Awsome Cd Every Song Is Great Definate Recommendation 5/5.

One would think that a band with a couple years of performing experience and a few albums to its credit would be able to come up with at least one interesting riff if given 10 chances in the course of 45 minutes, but Fireball Ministry doesn't. I'm not sure this is songs so much as it is a collection of chords put together in the most boring midtempo fashion imaginable. A couple songs sound like they might be on to something, but fall apart within a minute or so after you realize that the payoff in the form of a catchy riff doesn't come. In short, yet another modern band that can't write songs -- and part of a genre I like to call "riff rock without riffs."

About the best I can say for this band is that their hearts are in the right place (heck, I'd probably dig this if they had anything to say musically) and that the cover is very cool.

If you want a modern band worth hearing, check out the Sword (Age of Winters), Iron Man (Generation Void), Trouble, Earthride, Internal Void, Corrosion of Conformity, or even Fireball Ministry's labelmates, Nebula.