The debut grew on me enormously over week until it became a staple in my family's CD carousel.

I heard the whole of Rise Up on the speakers before the WET gig in stockholm last month, and several tracks knocked my socks off, while a couple didn't.

Live, it must be said, almost every track old and new were transformed into near-metal emotional facemelters.

I was hanging in the club with my friend Martin who writes for RockNews , a major metal resource in Sweden, and he proclaimed the album to be one of the best he's ever heard and that it took a short while to grow on him.

I guess we'll just have to wait ad see how we like it !

and Jeff - will you be playing any WEt songs on your forthcoming UK tour buddy ? Just hold the farts ok ? :)