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Somewhat rockish groove metal--the sound is in the ballpark of what you'd imagine based on the back cover bandpic. There are a couple instances where they seem to be going for more of a Godsmack style sound. Main vocals are actually less aggro than I was expecting, and just somewhat gruff, maybe approaching Hetfield style. The secondary vocals are ultra forced, reminding me somewhat of Oderus from Gwar, and they're even sillier when they have nu- rap inflection like in "Killswitch."
A couple sections have a generic Metallica-esque sort of thrashiness to them (particularly considering the vocals), and I'm sure the guitarists have heard and maybe even consider themselves fans of most of the classic mainstream metal bands. Still, I don't think any of this reflects in the music enough to interest most thrash or traditional metal maniacs. And even though I'm not a big proponent of the style anyway, the groove metal stuff on here doesn't seem particularly hard-hitting or inspired for the genre. Perhaps this was something more commercially viable around the time it was released, but I'm not quite sure who would gravitate towards it nowadays.
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