'Eternal Live' is a nice overview of 'Slaughter' and a fitting tribute to guitarist 'Patrick Kelly', who was tragically killed shortly after the recording of this album. Regrettably the actual recordings, production, and track continuity does not match the bands performances and considering this was released in '98 is pretty disappointing. The track selection is fairly predictable but still pretty strong, I personally would have liked to have heard more from their heavier release 'Fear No Evil', but all said, still a solid live journey through their back catalogue.

'Eternal Live' opens with a live working of 'Rock the World' and while it's a decent, carefree rocker, it's spoilt by the poor recording, which includes a muffled, suppressed feel throughout. Fortunately 'Get Used to It', comes across much crisper and thankfully it's a good rendition of a strong song, 'Mark Slaughter' sounds convincing live and is well supported on this catchy light-hearted rocker. Less convincing is 'Shout it Out', a disjointed affair with poor production, while 'Mad About You' is a marked improvement, 'Mark Slaughter' sings with plenty of conviction and is well supported throughout. The pace drops for the 'Scorpion's' sounding 'Spend my Life' and overlooking the awful audience participation, is still a pretty lame effort, that hardly warrants inclusion. Back on track is the 'Slaughter' stable 'Fly to the Angels' and retrospectively is a nice tribute to 'Patrick Kelly', overall a very melodic rendition considering it's live, complete with sweet melody, passionate vocals and an enthusiastic audience. Following on strongly is a solid working of 'Real Love', which includes some fine guitaring from 'Kelly', while the party style rocker 'Dance for Me' is executed in a carefree manner. Best of all in my opinion though is the excellent 'Searchin'', one of my favourite sing-a-longs and this live rendition fails to disappoint, 'Mark Slaughter' is convincing on vocals and is well supported by the rhythm section who turn in excellent performances. Ensuing strongly is the tough rocker 'WildLife' which works well live and features some nice 'Kelly' solos and strong backing vocals. 'Move to the Music' proceed and ebbs and flows nicely, lyrically enjoyable especially live and graced with some nice guitar licks and the usual 'Mark Slaughter' high pitched quality vocals. 'Up All Night' which is possibly 'Slaughter's' best known song, is a little overrated in my opinion, but overlooking the awful inappropriate intro and outro, this is good solid version.

If the production and continuity had been better, I wouldn't have hesitated to give this a higher rating, but as it stands, it struggles to compete with most live Hard Rock / Metal albums of the 90's.