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This is the third and final album by Mother's Army, a band that is hailed as a progressive rock super group on Wikipedia. I disagree with the prog label but the album does rock. "Fire on the Moon" is heavier than the last and the vocal harmonies have been traded in mostly for Joe Lynn Turner's rough rock vocal.
As I wrote in my review of "Mother Earth" the second album, that album is slow and ponderous at times. This album picks up the pace and gets raunchier in the guitar quarters. Gone are the slow songs of approaching environmental doom. There's a more sinister sound to some of the songs like "Moruroa Atoll" and the title track really has guts.
The lyrics, like the music, pick up the tempo. Joe Lynn Turner sounds like himself and really lets loose on some tracks. Jeff Watson gives more heavy grind from his guitar and the drumming by Aynsley Dunbar rocks and rolls with the music with more energy than what Carmine Appice provided for the slower previous album. My only gripe might be that the sound is not as clean as on the previous album. It is a bit muddy, like the bass was recorded on lo-fi almost. But other than that, for a good hard rock album this one does rather well.
MMA classifies this as hard rock and that's what you should expect. However, this is not KISS or AC/DC. There's still a menacing metal edge to some of the songs. True, there are lighter moments to be found here and there, but overall, Mother's Army have shot from the gut on this album.
