Riot The Brethren Of The Long House

2015, After the highly entertaining and musically diverse post-80s album NIGHTBREAKER was released, Mark Reale and his newly formed two guitar incarnation of Riot recorded this, the best and most underrated CD to come out during the Mike DiMeo era of the band. It is significant both as a piece of entertainment and as a work of art, loaded with speed metal classics, mid tempo riff monsters, a rather interesting vocal arrangement of ,,Shenandoah", and a lyrical retrospective about the history of the struggles between displaced European settlers and the Natives of what is now known as America. The music on here is a more polished and speed metal version of ,,Nightbreaker", drawing from the same combination of speed metal tracks and melodic mid-tempo rockers. The first full length track ,,Glory Calling" is a great speed metal anthem cut from the same grain as ,,Nightbreaker" and classic Riot song ,,Warrior". ,,Rolling Thunder", the title track, and ,,Ghost Dance" follow suit with the same melodic approach.