At first we had a slightly moderate tempo to open the album-your basic rock beat with an even keel to the rhythmic guitar strumming and then… and then, the walls come crashing down!

In fact the whole song is broken into building a fairly stable sound structure and then tearing it back down again!

I get the idea there's going to be construction/destruction taking place here on the aptly named "At the Barricades We Fall," from these Selfmindead Swedes.

"The Motivation Song" follows suit, this time with a slightly off key break by mid song which serves as a launching point to a mass of destructive blows of the power chords-only the drums do most of the damage here.

With wrecking ball like efficiency, this new one's a not so vivid example of rock and roll extremity. "Into the Fire" breaks the rule here as well as the sound barrier in most instances and again the cymbals come crashing down to the senseless pummeling of a doomed drum kit…

This is one of those bands that basically creates then recreates its own genre of music. On the one hand, Selfmindead could quickly make an argument of a new breed of aggro-rock only one that is broken into several different pieces where each one is then reassembled to form a completely misshapen structure.

It's a new twist to be sure and not the first time we've heard such a groundbreaking blend of styles from the unique performers who've developed on the Solid State home for the musically deranged!

Have I mentioned they're from Sweden?

Sometimes it gets a little too muffled where the voice, difficult to understand in the first place, is drowned out from the sonic shoving match between the oft-battling guitars and percussion…

But here's something a little bit different for song six, "Everything's Gonna Be OK." Still can't hear a word but catchy beat they got going in the background and nice twin tone echoes supporting the solo work!

Selfmindead shows the convictions of a band not only out to shake the cage of the preexisting conditions heavy rock music's been bound to, but carve a major niche for themselves by expanding its resources with a sense of melodic malcontent, progressive dysfunction and industrialized truculence…

Released by Solid State Records

Review By Vinnie Apicella