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felt feeling rather than clichd meaningless words. "Leveller" crashes back with a powerful keyboard led rock riff, the first time Steve Paine has been let loose to dominate a song and here his twenty notes to the dozen works perfectly against a powerful guitar backdrop. "Call Out My Name" is in many ways similar to a lot that we have already heard on this album but creates its own identity from the glorious vocal delivery that takes little time in becoming familiar to the listener, it has an immediacy that makes you want to join in. Combine that with the music that makes you want to get up and dance and you have the essence of what IS do.

And "Conquistadors" also seems to be a good summation of their two extremes. Beginning with just a voice and acoustic guitar over a keyboard wash and a minimal input from bass and drums this song builds in power, employing all the normal tricks and some sumptuous mass choral parts in the very depths of the song matching the dark subject matter. This song tells of the Spanish conquest of central America in the renaissance period and the atrocities that were committed in the name of the Christian church and reminds us that the tern pagan applies in a very general sense to cultures across the world and throughout time, many who have suffered in the name of religious intolerance and human greed. But this is not an anti-Christian band, but one that is culturally and historically aware and is able to use this to give warnings against mans injustice to fellow man and does it by creating some wonderful music. Similar lyrical content raises its head in "Burning Times" an ode to the Inquisitions and Witch finders of our past. The music kicks into a relentless rock drive from the first and doesn't let up, but alongside this overdrive rock-a-rama we are treated to some sublime lyrical delivery the trademark sharp edged lead solo and again a sense of melody that stops the song from self destructing into a musical quantity of quality which many bands seem to fall into. Its not always the amount of notes you play, the speed of delivery or the beats per minute count which is important but knowing which are the right notes to give the maximum effect; IS show that they have a good understanding of both concepts.

The rock continues with "Song To Pan" a devotional work to the free spirit that under pins many pagan beliefs, the guitars here making this song into one of the heaviest deliveries on the album, a wall of thunderous sounds and haunting

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