Every Bridge Burning

Critic Score
Based on 8 reviews
2024 Ratings: #362 / 723
User Score
2024 Ratings: #194
August 30, 2024 / Release Date
LP / Format
Nuclear Blast / Label
Kurt BallouProducer
Full Credits
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Critic Reviews

85
Blabbermouth.net
If you need music that sounds like a fleet of bulldozers dropped onto the heads of your enemies, NAILS can and will provide.
80
The Needle Drop

Nails is still dishing out some of the hardest and most visceral music in their lane.

80
Metal Injection
Nails exists to deliver the most music possible. No matter what they write, they can be counted on to deliver 110% pure uncut pandemonium.
80
Kerrang!

After eight long years, American psychos Nails return to unrepentantly grind you into the ground.

80
Distorted Sound

The line-up may have changed, and it may have taken its sweet time to materialise, but this album is still very much a case of the ‘ain’t broke don’t fix it’ approach that NAILS have stuck to ever since they, uhh, nailed it on their 2010 debut LP Unsilent Death.

70
Sputnikmusic

Sidestepping the temptation for bold reinvention, Every Bridge Burning sticks staunchly to the staple NAILS lane, opting once again for beefy Ballou production, chunky monkey riffs and sweaty loud noises.

70
Metal Hammer
Eight years and more than a few band members since their last record, Nails are back and brutal as ever.
70
Angry Metal Guy

While previous Nails outings may have succeeded through a manic vibe and unstoppable intensity, Every Bridge Burning succeeds by being classically memorable at its best moments. And when it’s not? Well, at least it rips.

EEF
90

Nails still manage to make an album that sounds just as heavy, intense, strong performed, and even groovy as their other albums, while being far from a replica of those albums. Seriously one of the most consistent metal bands of all time.

ST4T1C
95

HOOOOOLY SHIIIIIIIIT!!!!!

After 8 years of silence since the last album, Nails finally come back, with easily one of their most cutthroat and heaviest albums, honestly since their opus “Unsilent Death”. Everything about this album feels like it’s gonna tear your skull out of your body, Mortal Kombat style, and it’s AWESOME! The writing is also amazing too, diving headfirst into feelings of failure and self-hate and manifesting it onto others for them to feel even a ... read more

RemisReviews
81

My ADHD approves of this album.

A little too long, but I'll let it slide Nails, the guitars were sick and the energy was on point as always.

FAV TRACKS: Lacking The Ability To Process Empathy, No More Rivers To Cross, I Can't Turn It Off, Punishment Map
LEAST FAV TRACKS: Trapped, Dehumanized

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DJRich
NR

And how large are these nails?

NonAnon
82

Still brutal, still exhilarating.

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60

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