HOLD YOUR FIRE

This is brilliant! how can you not love this masterpiece? RUSH have always managed to maintain groundbreaking originality with every disc they release, and HOLD YOUR FIRE being of no exception, and in my opinion, is a gigantic five stars masterwork. I cannot fault this album whatsoever -production is clean and all elements of musicianship are executed to the highest standards (as allways) NEAL PEART once again confirms to the world that he is the greatest! (YES I SAID THE GREATEST!!!) and teaches us mere mortals what drummology is all about. I was simply blown away by this album and i still play it and it still sounds new and fresh. Listening pointers include LOCK AND KEY, MISSION, HIGH WATER,TURN THE PAGE, OPEN SECRETS -all of which are monsterous prog anthems where you'd have to go a long way to beat. I think this is probably chapstick's fave RUSH album! And if you've never heard it, you owe it to yourself (as a fan of prog and not necessarily and RUSH fan) to go buy it now and have an open mind.