4.0 out of 5 stars
Good, Nearly great, July 3, 2006
A Kid's Review
This review is from: Stainless (Audio CD)
Hailing from Florida and formed over a decade ago, these guys finally put out a full-length, and it's far from shabby. Stick it in your player and one trip through the swamps, a few beers, and a rather scary looking bass player later this is a damn fine album.
Once you can put aside the fact that the main riff on 'Skull and Bones' is a blatant ripoff of Black Sabbath's self titled juggernaut, the album gets going. Slabs such as 'Blackened Skies', 'Sheep so Blind' and 'Opiated F*ck Machine' are the standout tracks; Shane varies his vocals from harsher growls to a more pained wail suiting the typical, southern lyrical themes of hate, depression and suicide. 'Locust Dreams in Potters field' (one of the band's signature songs) is the closest thing to a ballad whereas the closing 'Pacifier' is the excuse for simple, balls-out aggression. It could do with perhaps being shorter (it clocks in at a near 70 mins), as some of the more uninteresting tracks drag on slightly. Self-stlyed Swamp Metal, this should satisfy most in the EHG, Soilent Green (Falgoust guests on the opener) and Crowbar quarters of the metal community.
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