Some bands are really prolific; some bands take a while between releases, for instance some might say that Guns’n’Roses are getting a tad tardy with their new album, but it's nothing compared to White Wold. Victim Of The Spotlight. is their first album for twenty years! It is also their third and exists as a direct result of Escape’s Khalil Turk essentially asking the band to make a new album Easy really. I’d really like a new Romeo’s Daughter album if you’re reading this thanks Khalil! Has he done us any favours resurrecting the Wolf? They are certainly more metal than the label’s usual suspects and to my ears vocalist sounds like a particularly rocking Jim Peterik! Overall though, this is pretty damn good. 

The title track is up first and gives Mr. Wolf the chance to get his tonsils around a hard rocking 80’s style groove. The Wolf also has that 80’s vibe going on as well and sounds somewhat like Deep Purple did back in that decade, which is good. America (Hello Again) starts off in a moody fashion and I can see the blue tinted video now (large bosomed girl with massive hair gyrating in front of a film noir style blind) before rocking out. 

The Eyes of the World is built upon an insistent riff from and this is a real winner for fans of guitar based rock as Cam MacLeod and Martin Kronlund excel on this one. One More Lie starts again in a slightly moody way before the keyboards and guitars propel us towards another 80’s chorus. If you remember White Wolf from their first trip around the block this will be right up your street. 

Hard Cold Stone is IMHO (see, I’m down with the kids), the weakest track here as the chorus isn’t that memorable but does feature some rather fetching, ”huh’s.” Dreams Are For Ever is one of those songs that creep up on you after a few listens and you suddenly find yourself humming it in the street. This is the track, which, on the first listen, I decided that I was enjoying myself and again is built around some solid riffs underpinned by the keyboards supplied by bassist Rikard Quist and some superlative guitars towards the end. Nightmares carries on the good work and again it’s as if grunge never happened (and in my dreams it didn’t!)

Hold On (Getting’ Tighter) is noisy and tuneful whilst Don’t Turn Away and backs up their Biography’s claim that the Wolf are better than ever. This song is actually a duet and the two voices compliment each other well and the chorus is a bit of a fist thumper and sounds a bit like Rainbow in the JLT era. Out of Control rounds off the album and the guitars are out in force again to bring a highly enjoyable album to a close. 

One of the better comebacks of recent times.