When I bought this in mid-2022, this was a truly blind purchase, as I
couldn't find any real info about this disc online. I was a couple
bucks shy of getting my used CD establishment's 20% off $25 discount, so
I went ahead and bought it since it looked like it could potentially be
metal. The main deciding factor in choosing to get it was the
blindfolded Cambodian skull cover photo (obviously more infamously used on the
first Devastation album). I assumed it was either going to be alt-rock or
groove metal and wasn't in any hurry to listen to it, so I set it aside
and kinda forgot about it.
Fast forward to the present, and I see the band got a Metal Archives page earlier this year, where they're just listed as plain "heavy metal." I'm cautiously optimistic. The vocalist is Brian O'Connor, who sang for Vicious Rumors shortly after this...unfortunately, on Cyberchrist.
A few seconds in, it was very clear this was going to be groove metal, but the vocals were pretty clean, so I thought maybe it might be on the more tolerable side. Unfortunately it just sinks farther and farther into Pantera worship, being such generic groove metal that--I kid you not--there are "JUMP! JUMP! JUMP!" and "GO! GO! GO!" chants in two different songs.
There's also a hidden track after several tracks of silence. I knew whatever was there was going to be better than the actual album, whether it be a short Sabbath cover, a jam session with a cool riff, or even some joke track. I was right about it being better than the actual album, but it turned out to be audio of comedian Buzz Sutherland doing his Donald Duck BJ bit, which is nothing I haven't heard before.
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