EDIT: This album's still pretty damn good but I don't find it memorable enough for a 90. A few of the songs blend together, but when this album gets good it gets GOOD. I still stand by my statement that Clouds Over California is one of the hardest songs ever recorded, and a few songs here also match that song's quality.
Really good album, Clouds Over California specifically is one of the hardest songs ever recorded.
It's a groove metal album that borders on being metalcore, so that explains ... read more
As I return to listen and discover Metal after months of absence due to le big fat sad (depression), 2000s American Metallers "DevilDriver" were the next on my list.
Born as a Groovy Metalcore band with melodeath undertones, DevilDriver carved out a little place for themselves in the olympus of the big names of the 2000s, though not as big as their peers, such as Killswitch Engage, Demon Hunter, As I Lay Dying, Trivium etc.
A fun, all out rageful record with intense and great ... read more