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The beginning of greatness.

B. Forrester | Maryland | 09/30/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I got this CD way back in `03 after hearing "Swinging the Dead" off the Freddy vs. Jason soundtrack. I was a Coal Chamber fan, but Dez Farfara was, and still is, one of my favorite vocalists, so I thought I would check it out. The band probably knew they were going to get flack from their lead singer's nu-metal past, so this album comes across as a blatant brutal war cry to all the doubters. Since I was primarily a fan of nu-metal at the time (It was the late 90's early 2000's and I was a young impressionable kid, sue me) this album was the hardest metal album I owned, and along with DD's The Fury of Our Maker's Hand, served as the beginning of me getting into much harder metal.



This album is probably Devildriver at their most straight forward of all their albums, it's a damn good groove metal (the most underutilized metal genre IMO) album with some light speed metal sprinkled throughout. Some of the lyrics seem a little clunky in comparison to their later works, but each track on this album is addictive in its own right. Even though their albums that follow this, blow this debut out of the water, it's still a classic to me and has never lost its ability to get me riled up.



My Favorites: "I Could Care Less," "Die (and Die Now)," "Come Meet the Mountain," "Swinging the Dead," & "Revelation Machine.""