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The use of some old guys' droning voices (off a scratchy vinyl) at the beginning and end of this album, gives 'Hypnotism' a quasi-concept feel, like you're being hypnotised at the beginning of the album, and woken up at the end (feeling terrific, of course!). But the hard-edged rap-metal on 'Hypnotism' would rouse anyone from a mesmerised stupor pretty quickly, andthose spoken bookends eventually detract from an otherwise impressive debut {thank goodness for the CD skip function, hey? - ed}.

Four Ounce Freedom are a Pretoria band who sound comfortable and confident with their broad grasp of contemporary metal rock, yet these original songs all have a specific FOF sound. Credit for that to Dino Giovanni's big, brazen vocals, Illimar Neitz's flashing guitar and a bone-crunching backing from Janard Booijse (bass) and Wouter Kirstein(drums).

The opening monologue eventually gives way to the thundering 'Shift', which leads immediately into the maelstrom that is 'Walk Away'(and you may be tempted to at this point). But'Today' is a coiled spring of a blues-rock ballad that briefly shows the band's "softer" side before crashing songs like 'Scream', 'Blame', and the closing, wired, groans-enhanced 'Are You Sex', bring us hurtling back to the calming voice of that elderly hypnotist. 'Hypnotism' proves that SA rock bands can rock with the best without sounding like the rest. Nod your head to this.

(Stephen Segerman of the S.A. Rock Digest)