Sort of gives renewed meaning to the idea of silence being deafening…

Uh, right.

"Rise and Shine" kinda begins innocently enough with a thumping bass and half-cocked rap before the RATM ranting comes into play and here we go again right… well, maybe not.

They got this cool break in between, again spotlighting the bass-thumping and some interesting guitar licks before letting it all hang out like a darting tongue piercing straight through your temples!

And then they suck your brain right out leaving you lifeless and empty… oh no, wait a minute, are we talking about the band here or did I really buy into all this televangelist tyranny and Christianity up for sale thing that quickly?

Well that's their cause and if the girl devoured by dollar bills and clutching a bible and half eaten apple in either hand is any indication, these guys have a serious rift between their own beliefs and that which has marked our existence for a great many months I'd say!

But truthfully, religious bashing never goes out of style and for that I blame all of these corrupt and idealistic morons who pledge to purify our souls and ask oh so little in return…

And we got this guy called "Yap" fronting the cause here and how perfect is that?

I mean, if it ain't one preacher it's another right, so…

I like what these guys do in and around the "Killing in the name of…" stuff, they got some serious grooves and neat little breaks in the sequence-maybe that's where we're getting this "One Minute Silence" stuff I suppose?

"Buy Now…" is a self-righteous search for answers that transcends simply the religious scheme and oftentimes throws its weight around a preconceived political forum and again, the tyrannical parade goes on for hours on end… and again I'm still hearing the same exact beats and breaks and rushing crush of the guitars… and then it stops. I like what they're doing for the most part but they're doing it on practically every song here-let's take it for what it's worth and move away a little bit then!

"Food for the Brain" starts out like a house of fire, the rock/rap combination flying full force right through ya in an highly intense and aggro-stomp and jive that's actually kinda what I expected to hear from the word "go."

The dampening returns on the next one, momentarily blown out by rage, back again and then bam-a faceful of the worst!

Great tune-best one here I think… "Fish Out of Water?"

Okay, I'll go with it-a heavy slice of nu-metal rancor with a bit of style to it-not bad indeed!

File these guys away somewhere between Rage meets Sevendust meets Downset, with a smidgen of European flare and Falwell-like flagrancy!

Released by V2 Records

Review by Vinnie Apicella [va85@columbia.edu]