"Greaser One" is fast and furious. Sadly the belched vocal style, so popular in this brand of metal, stops me from enjoying this song. When the tempo is reeled back and there's some spoken growling, things threaten to get interesting. "Gust Of Rage" is an ominous title, and the song itself is more of the same of what has gone before. Some cleaner vocals make things more listenable, but not much. Fans of screaming will enjoy this. "Requiem For A Dying Race" doesn't break the mould, with the band as furious as ever. It's slightly hard to tell where their anger is aimed. I finish this song knowing no more about what happened to the titular dying race. "It Takes... " promises to be my favourite song, with intense but moody guitar, but it fades out after a minute. Frustrating.

The next couple of songs ("Misanthrophie And Mean" and "Me And The World") continue the tantrum. Once again it is the instrumental fragment that captures my attention "...A Whole Life..." has a frantically strummed acoustic guitar that reminds me of Carved In Sand-era Mission. Some clean vocals during "Buried" make this ong more enjoyable than some songs on this album. "Rising Terror" sounds like all the other songs, which is good if you've enjoyed the all the other songs. I think anger is a valid emotion, but aren't there other feelings the band want to express? "...To Become A Man" is OK, perhaps because it's an instrumental. "In Memoriam" has some Rage Against The Machine-style chugging guitars. "Worst Of All" lives up to its name. Did you know that "Pangenesis" was Charles Darwin's hypothetical mechanism for heredity? I'm not sure how this relates to the S-Core song of the same name though.

Ultimately there's a fundamental mismatch between S-Core and this reviewer. Fans of what the band's press release describes as 'hardcore metal' will no doubt find much to enjoy. I need a lie down and a nice cup of tea. Possibly some cake.