Ok I'm gonna be totally honest here. I was so ready to hate this album just by the Hot Topic-y nom de plume they chose as a band name. But like everything in life never judge a book totally by the cover. Or by the cheeky sounding hipster band name. These guys (and a girl) ain't too bad. But with that said they are more than a tad bit derivative in their choice of sound, which kind of becomes the nail in their collective coffins.

Hailing from Pennsylvania, Singer/Guitarist Abby Krizner and company lay down 9 tracks that will most likely satisfy the indiscriminate doom rocker. The songs are packed with some lead laden riff grinding of the Alice In Chains/Sabbath/Corrosion Of Conformity kind, examples ‘S&M’, ‘Eternal Embrace’, and ‘Blue Jesus’ . Her vocals aren't shabby, I just wish they weren't so effects laden to the point of overproduction in some parts. Rawer would definitely have been better as with most things. Think a good BBQ'ed steak.

Bassist Johnnie Mc Callough and guitarist Jason Sichi keep the doom and gloom mood flowing pretty well, but the word derivative rears its ugly head yet again. Not that I'm saying its a bad thing to pull off your influences musically, but they definitely aren't reinventing the wheel. You've heard these songs before somewhere else, and they do them some justice musically...but not in originality. That's my main gripe in all of this for better or for worse. They come off like a Jersey Shore Metal/Alt cover band that decided to write some 'originals' in order to pull off an album of sorts. But they don't do it too badly if that's any consolation, I've definitely heard worse. Fist Fight's 'style without original substance' approach keeps these shredders from delivering the knockout punch they need, but at least they aren't trying to be Nickleback.