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The black album is really the only one of its kind. Never will you see a band that just made an entire album dedicated to anti-authoritarian themes and incredibly complex musicianship immediately redefine their whole sound into steady yet heavy metal anthems that tastefully balance thrash with some more classic rock elements with a separation of only a few years. Sure, it might be staunchly more radio-friendly than albums past, but I think that the 4-piece really found their stride here in ... read more

I Prevail's first album post the departure of Brian is the first album I've ever heard that becomes substantially better when you listen to the big hits and turn your brain off for the filler tracks. For an album literally entitled Violent Nature, it seems like for more than half of this incredibly short 32 minute album, the band is anything but. Songs like NWO and especially the absolutely amazing title track bring out the very best of the band, but Annihilate Me and others just feel ... read more

It's better to just listen to it yourself.

This soundtrack should serve as perfect proof that simply just throwing in pop talent into a stew and expecting a good result to come out of it simply doesn't work. Barring the amazing work of Don Toliver to create a main theme that seems to perfectly hit every time it appears in the movie, the rest of the songs just seem like bland promotional material so that celebrities have to show up to the actual races and garner more attention.