'David Reece' fills the boots of 'Udo Dirkschneider' for the only 'Accept' album without the influential front man. While 'Reece' is a fine vocalist, he doesn't have the distinctiveness of 'Udo' and combining this with some more mainstream material, its hard to distinguish this group as 'Accept'. All said there are still some fine cuts to be found, and if 'Eat the Heat' wasn't by an established group, it would probably have received more praise upon its release.

The sweet opening guitar work of 'X-T-C' promises a lot and even when 'Reece's' vocals kick in it, it works pretty well, this is strong opener with solid chorus and plenty of tasty solos. Less impressive is the mechanical sounding 'Generation Clash', which features dull vocal sections, an awful overdubbed "computer" style voice and at over 6 minutes, soon begins to irritate. The more commercial sounding 'Chain Reaction', highlight an intro full of sweeping guitar work, but fails to capitalise as the song deteriorates into a done to death 'Power Ballad'. Surprisingly better is the alarmingly titled 'Love Sensation', that brings images of some crappy attempt to get chart success, it turns out to be a pretty solid rocker though, with strong chorus and excellent vocals, loses its way a little towards the end, but still strong. The first half closes on a high note, 'Turn the Wheel', although a bit predicable and repetitive, is full of vitality and some fabulous strafing courtesy of 'Wolf Hoffmann'. The second half fails to ignite, 'Prisoner' is a late 80's 'Kiss' style effort, while the boring 'Mistreated' doesn't deserve to share the same name as the 'Purple' classic. More mediocrity takes the form of 'Stand 4 What U R', a feel-good song, that could be by any average light-weight 'Hair Metal' group. Thankfully the second half gets underway 'Accept' style. 'Hellhammer' is basic, but at least it has a bit of steel behind it, vocally 'Reece' does well on this more gutsy number and the rest of the band back him up well. 'D-Train' pretty much rips, a real burner full of shredding guitars and blistering rhythm, a fine closing track and my pick of the album.

Its easy to point fingers at 'David Reece' for the failings of this release, but overall I think he does a fine job, Ok he's no 'Udo', but he's not a bad vocalist. 'Udo' fans will be pleased to learn that he returns for the next release 'Objection Overruled'.