This album will meet and exceed all expectations & minumum requirements.  Any fan of Guns 'N' Roses or STP will relish in this album; nothing else will enter your cd player  for weeks.  It is that good. Forget Neurotic Outsiders, Snakepit and other minor splash side projects. This is album of the year material.  Duff & Sorum lay it down thick and heavy like nobody's business (Sorum hasn't sounded this good since "Sonic Temple"). Great & gritty vocals from Weiland are a given. Oh, and did I mention Slash plays a killer  guitar?  'Nuff said.