i just got this great album and i would like to know how or where can get the lirics. thx, Guillermo

The biography of New Jersey’s Rivera Bomma states, word for word, that “Rivera Bomma aren’t concerned with being part of the current trend. In fact, they’ve never been overly concerned with what the mainstream audience deemed popular.” No kidding? Actually, I could not think of a better way to sum things up, particularly in light of the duos most recent outing, "I Am God". A combination of American power metal and straightforward hard rock with an occasional progressive leaning, "I Am God" reflects influences as diverse as Rainbow, Deep Purple, Dio and Dokken while serving to showcase the potential Rivera Bomma hinted at on its 2001 debut Invisible Force. While certainly not bad from a musical standpoint, I found Invisible Force to fall a bit short of the mark due to its lack of continuity. The album, for example, delivered its share of upbeat hard rockers in addition to three instrumental tracks, a couple of ballads and several acoustic based numbers. In other words, a lot of variety. I Am God, on the other hand, does include one ballad (“Oh Girl”) and a very fine instrumental (“La Voz De Mi Guitarra”) but proves the all around more focused effort from front to back in highlighting the combined abilities of lead vocalist Johnny Bomma and guitarist Rod Rivera. Bomma proves quite the talented frontman, contributing a resounding and clean but powerful classic tenor voice. Rivera is a shredder in the truest sense of the word who literally steals the show with a dazzling style bringing to mind the likes of Richie Blackmore, Michael Schenker and Yngwie Malmsteen. With that in mind, it must be mentioned that the abundant confidence the band exhibits in its instrumental sound helps to take many of the albums compositions out past the six or even the seven minute mark.

I am God - Absolutely Brilliant! If you are tired of the same old, cookie cutter rock bands out there, fear no more! The blend of music is impossible to target. If you enjoy unique, true raw talent, buy this CD TODAY! Two thumbs up and more if I had more! Procrastination will rob you!

The CD starts off with the title track. Now the lyrics for the song are great, but other than the chorus, I don't like how the arrangement was done with the verses and the musical style. They just don't blend in well I think. The lyrical structure for the chorus fits very well though. The song 'Oh Girl' tells the story of a lost love. It's a great heavy ballad without any power beahind it. Great guitar solo and a nice bass rhythm to go with it. One of my personal favorites since it doesn't rely heavily on the power prog stuff to 'sell' the song. Lyricslly all of the songs are very Christ centered or Faith based. Musically, I'm not much of a power prog person, but it does grow on me as I listen to the CD more and more, but it does make it a little hard to review this CD. Quite a few of the songs seemed to have the same basic forumla to them or they shared the same 3 or 7 chord arrangement with a few changes here and there or a complete change in the middle of the song and then switch back to the same chord arrangement. Also, several of the songs were a little long (some over 7 minutes long with the title song at just over 8:30). Production quality on this CD was excellent. Everyting was crip and clean. Mastering quality was superb to make this a quality CD. The liner notes and printed lyrics were good as well. Although, white text on a orange flame colored background doesn't read to well.