In terms of content, AFTERGLOW expands upon the progression that took place between BCC and BCC2. "It's a deeper album, musically, than our first two albums, but it does not step away from the genre were in," said Hughes, who wrote the bulk of the albums eleven songs after BCCs Summer Tour in 2011. Rock Guitar Dailys Tony Conley says, "It sounds like there's a war going on It rages with an unbridled passion unseen on the first two Black Country releases, and this passion adds immensely to the music."