It's true that a covers album doesn't mean that every band has to sound exactly like the original, but they should capture the spirit and essence of the original songs while adding their own unique sound. Unfortunately, the only tracks I really liked are Luca Turilli's "I'm Alive", and Dark Moor's very ambitious cover of "Halloween" (enjoyable if you don't mind the Spanish-accented female voice).The covers by Rhapsody, Sonata Arctica, and Secret Sphere sounded decent, but the rest of the CD is just bland or plain awful (e.g. "A Little Time" by Heaven's Gate is atrocious). Even Labyrinth's "Future World" was disappointing. And everyone in Cydonia should be turned into big, fat, half-priced pumpkins for creating such an insipid version of "Save Us".