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The CD is decent, especially because of Buckley’s voice (which is really on point even in "Everytime I Die"), but Scott Ian should focus on Anthrax, considering they've worn out their welcome with their soap opera and released their last official album in 2003 (which was a piece of crap, by the way), instead of acting like a kid playing with people 20 years younger than him.

CD THAT, IT'S TRUE, REVOLVES AROUND COREY'S VOICE... NOT BAD BUT A BIT TOO RADIO-FRIENDLY FOR MY TASTES. THE PREVIOUS ONE, IN ADDITION TO BEING BETTER, WAS MORE AGGRESSIVE AND GRITTY. THIS ONE GETS A 3 BECAUSE COREY REMAINS A GREAT SINGER (I'VE SEEN HIM LIVE, GREAT PERFORMANCE) AND BECAUSE IT'S STILL A NICE MODERN HARD ROCK CD, BUT, LET'S FACE IT, IT'S DRAGGED DOWN BY ITS LENGTH (THE VERSION I HAVE CONTAINS 17 SONGS!!!!)

In agreement with Ozzy Rotten, I've been listening to him these days. I find that there are beautiful songs performed with excellent technique, even if it all sounds a bit (too) cold. Damn, the drums are driving at 3000 bpm of double bass all the time, it sounds fake because it's so fast, even though I know Tim Yeung is an incredible drummer. Well, somehow you should give it a listen, in my opinion. Dino "Asesino" Cazares is still the same animal when it comes to chugging riffs, and the new singer has a very melodic vein. I can't say if he's better or worse than the previous singer; let's just say there are many tracks where clean vocals are used massively, and for me, this is the limit of the album in question. The ongoing search for a melodic chorus is the plague that has sunk most metal CDs in recent years, especially Killswitch Engage, even though their "Alive or Just Breathing" remains a musical gem, they have been sinking into unheard-of mediocrity with overly sugary choruses for years. But the list would be long; just naming one random band among all those crapcore groups that have been infesting the scene for a while now. Anyway, I'm rambling on uselessly, sorry. My upcoming (new) listens: Converge "Axe to Fall," Slayer "World Painted Blood," Rammstein "Liebe Ist Für Alle Da," Municipal Waste "Massive Aggressive," Brutal Truth "Evolution Through Revolution," Bulldozer "Unexpected Fate," Burnt By The Sun "Heart Of Darkness," Baroness "Blue Record," Shrinebuilder "Shrinebuilder." Bye everyone and happy listening!

ONE OF THE UGLIEST, MOST DERIVATIVE AND COMMERCIAL CD OF NU-METAL. SCANDALOUS, JUST LIKE THE REVIEW FROM THE REST (ORIGINALS? IT'S CLEAR THAT IN YOUR WORLD SEPULTURA, SOULFLY, PUYA, LABERINTO HAVE NEVER EXISTED...)

The review contains some inaccuracies regarding the group (for example, as far as I know, the big four of thrash were Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer; Pantera came a bit later; and you need to explain to me where you hear glam in State of Euphoria...) but it is well-written and passionate. The CD, on the other hand, is powerful and solid with the classic marble guitar riffs of Scott Ian, one of the best rhythmic guitarists in metal (and with many hardcore influences, I’d add, who remembers the legendary S.O.D.?) and the stunning voice of Bush, who is truly a singer of another level compared to the good Belladonna, with whom the band wrote their classics. Fueled, American Pompeii, In a Zone are the highlights of a CD that at the time was really not successful, underrated but also mistreated by critics and fans who already appreciated little the inclusion of the new singer and the new trends present in Sound of White Noise (which for me remains a great CD, anyway), also due to the new metal that was making its way in the States in those years. For me, the best CDs by these gentlemen remain Among the Living, Persistence of Time, Sound of White Noise, and this Stomp 442, decent Spreading the Disease (but this album will count a lot for the history of metal), Volume 8, State of Euphoria, while I find the last one, We’ve Come for You All, truly mediocre, full of unnecessary modernisms for their music. One last thing: to encourage all metalheads who haven’t heard it yet, I point out that this is one of the few CDs that are truly 100% METAL that arrived from the States in the mid-'90s. Greetings to all.