Firehouse's heavy debut managed to withstand the turn-of-the-decade thinning of the Pop Metal crop on the basis of its MOR appeal to coming-of-age metal kids. When arrayed in the soft lights and mist of power ballads, the band showed chartability. Throughout the 1990s, they smoothed away their Metal edges, opting for a clean tunefulness and swaggering sensitivity seemingly lifted from Western romances.
