While I thought it was cool getting to check out a hardcore punk band all the way from China, slick production work by Brian Hardgroove (Public Enemy), and nice packaging were not enough to save this album. Demerit is a band with an identity crisis. This album sounds like the band couldn’t figure out how they wanted to sound or what genre they wanted to play, so they wrote separate songs for each of the genres they like. This gives the album a disjointed feel, like a really bad compilation, not an album. There’s some ‘80s NYHC-style songs, some oi and street punk songs, and some straight-up ‘80s metal, with an acoustic jam closing the album. With such radically different sounds to each song—and none of them particularly memorable—this album flounders around as if in search of musical direction. If Demerit ever finds such a direction, they will be a force to be reckoned with, but this album is lost, and should stay that way.
–Paul J. Comeau (Tenzenmen)