Music in the nineties had a few curses, one of which was dreadfully overlong albums, so the thought of a double tends to make me cringe all the more. But at just over seventy minutes, this is shorter than some single albums from that time, so I suppose it's not horrifying.
As for the material itself, with brass, orchestras, etc making appearances, it's certainly eclectic (Michael Kiske, Michael Weikath and Roland Grapow wrote four songs each) but not too bad. "When The Sinner" is clearly the best song, while "First Time" is pretty good, and "Windmill" is nice, but it does lose my interest as it goes.
After this, vocalist Kiske and drummer Ingo Schichtenberg left the group, and they went to something approaching their "traditional" sound, much to the relief of many.
**1/2
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