US Metal merchants and Underground kings RIVAL have finally finished recording their Metal Blade debut „State Of Mind“! The album was produced, recorded and mixed by Chris Steinmetz. The Ohio quartet delivers the goods on this album and serves a nice dish of true American Heavy Metal in the vein of the classic US Metal heroes of the Eighties (did I hear someone scream OMEN?)! Hell yeah, there’s not much good US Power Metal around nowadays – RIVAL are a welcome refreshment to the scene! “State Of Mind” will be released on May, 3 via Metal Blade Records!