What do you do when your guitarist leaves you to pursue his whimsy? Get a clone and pick it up like nothing happened. Dio came back with a vengeance on this record. Unfortunately his reign as the king of gothic metal was ending and his subequent tours were scaled down from here, but this is a much stronger record than 'Sacred Heart'. 'Night People' and 'Faces In The Window' proved that Ronnie James Midget still had the chops. --johnk5150.