Title: Half of this is average, the other half ROCKS!
Review: The first few songs on "Against the Law" are generally average material - they tend to sound very like the songs on "Pornograffiti" by Extreme but somehow without working as well - Against the Law and Not That Kind of Guy don't do much and Rock the People is very cheesy and cliched.However the album suddenly wakes up with the mix of frenzied power-chord smashes and weird keyboards on the intro to Shining Star, and thunders into action. Shining Star, Ordinary Man, Lady, and Caught in the Middle are awesome, and the Christian band that taught the world how to rock out acquired a seriously heavy edge right at the end; All For One is an anthem and Rock the Hell Out of You is thrash-metal a la Megadeth; Stryper by this stage were sinking but they went down with all guns (or should we say guitars?) blazing.
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