This is the Swedish band Trendkill's debut release. Instead of the usual Swedish metal sound, this band is strictly metalcore. You'll hear influences of bands like Meshuggah, Machine Head and Hatebreed. The songs are intense and brutual, and the vocals aggressive yelling.
This is a decent CD, but there's nothing that really stands out. The songs have the thrash riffs and breakdowns of metalcore, but it's all generic. The musicianship is good, they just need a little more of something to make them stand out from the eighty kajillion other bands that sound exactly like them.
