Guitarist Anders Wikstrom says of the follow-up to 2010's Coup De Grace: "This is where we are today. As a band, as musicians, songwriters and individuals. It's a statement.

"It's musical as well as a personal soul searching. We traced us back to our roots - the music and the heroes that got us started dreaming back in the 70s: Kiss, Van Halen, Sweet, Deep Purple and UFO. An era where music and musicianship really mattered and rock'n'roll was a matter of life or death.