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The Swedish Thrash band featuring Klas and Jörgen from DARKANE and Henry Ranta from SOILWORK throw down some tough riffs and head banging drum beats on their second offering. Rather than sounding like their Swedish counter parts, they opt for a more American sound ala "Burn My Eyes" MACHINE HEAD meets PANTERA in a back alley fight at 2am. Plenty of start-stop chugga chugga riffs are on the menu for a good potion of the disc, but doesn't sound like Nu-Metal by any means.
Growling and screaming vokills dominate the disc, but will knock you on your ass. What is cool this time around is that during the solos and some of the choruses you will hear the traditional melodic Swedish guitar doodling that we all come to know and worship. It's not obnoxious and doesn't take away a damn thing from this fine CD. It just adds another dimension. Gives it more depth and more atmosphere to their already hard and heavy as fuck sound.
While the music is pretty much straight forward, Henry Ranta throws in these mini time changes and tricky drumming that he does so effortlessly. He's a sneaky man, but an awesome drummer. Listen to whole disc to get my drift. Just when you get used to the hard and heavy with lots of groovy rhythms, "Forever Winding" slows things down quite considerably. Call it a power ballad, but it's really nice and it shows how versatile a band can be even if they are a bunch of bad asses. Thumbs up there. Fellow SOILWORKER Peter Wichers lends his hand to playing the acoustic guitar.
This CD is perfect mainly due to the fact that the songs are four minutes or less and the CD moves quickly and you don't even know it. The guys aren't trying to invent anything new. They are just simply playing American inspired music and added a Swedish touch. (Online April 25, 2003)
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