Chris Barnes claims, "This is a tribute to honor the great teachers that have influenced us as well as the world of metal we all belong to." That would include known/mainstream 70s commodities like Van Halen (‘On Fire’), Ramones (‘Psychotherapy’) and surprise of the batch, Bachman Turner Overdrive: ‘Not Fragile’. Not sure how many metalheads outside the Great White North will be familiar with BTO, but Hell, there’s 30% Canadian artists, so Can-Con rules are covered!

The more metallic fare includes Slayer (‘At Dawn They Sleep’), Metallica (‘Frayed Ends Of Sanity’), as well as underground masters Anvil (‘Metal On Metal’), Exciter (‘Pounding Metal’), Twisted Sister (‘Destroyer’) and Mercyful Fate (‘A Dangerous Meting’). Actually, these renditions depend upon how much one has invested in each, as basically this is if Barnes were dropped into said bands. SFU didn’t slow to their pace, nor try to alter the guitar tones. Barnes even attempts two ‘voices,’ his normal drone and something akin to the black metal’s gremlin pitch mixed with the campy 70s Sleestaks from Land Of The Lost. The Exciter and Sister tracks were bass heavy in the original guise, so not much different here. Never a fan of Van Halen, they benefit from the bottom end balls always so sorely lacking. Ditto Metallica, albeit to a lesser extent. The process fails (at least to these ears) for Mercyful Fate (no King falsetto?), Anvil (nearly unrecognizable) and Slayer, which doesn’t seem as dangerous as Araya’s psychotic delivery.