When Black Moon Rites begins, you'll hear a song that describes this whole album. It contains mostly generic guitar riffs that one might write after playing guitar for a year and learning a few easy Metallica songs on the side. Then there's a good riff every once in a (very long) while. That is basically what this album is. Generic hardcore punk power chord riffs stolen from what I like to call the "Green Day scale" with some guttural hissing in the background. At least the drums sound good.