Cross Purposes is a straight forward heavy metal album with the typical lyrics, vocals and sound. You would think that this would be boring but it is not since good heavy metal is just as good as any other rock music and they are very accomplished vocalists, descent lyricists and great muisicians. The book-let is well done and the font used is easy on the eye which is nice. This is an album not to be missed by BS fans or fans of great music for that manner.