One of the defining bands of the New Wave of American heavy metal that was so prevalent in the early 2000\u2019s, Shadows Fall got their chance at the major label brass ring in 2007 with this disc. Right from the get go, the band come out swinging so punishingly heavy, it almost boggles the mind. The opening song \u201cRedemption\u201d is just so devastatingly fast and brutal that any metal-head will stand up and take notice. A tip of the hat to the band for instantly creating one of the coolest metal tracks of the last fifteen years or so.<\/p>\n
The album just continually gets better from there. Vocalist Brian Fair \u2013 he of the gigantic dreads \u2013 has a very powerful voice that handles just about everything the band comes up with. \u201cBurning The Lives\u201d and \u201cFailure Of The Devout\u201d are really great examples of this, just full of punishing riffs and Fair\u2019s vocals that sail above them and just crush the competition. In many ways, their approach to riffs and vocals reminds me a lot of early Testament, and there\u2019s absolutely nothing wrong with that at all.<\/p>\n
While \u201cVenomous\u201d doesn\u2019t seem to go anywhere and \u201cStorm Winds\u201d is a bit longer than necessary, there\u2019s enough here to where that doesn\u2019t matter. The album\u2019s magnum opus, the almost seven minute \u201cLast Call,\u201d is good, though there are better songs elsewhere. The acoustic intro of \u201cAnother Hero Lost\u201d sounds like their attempt at a ballad, but they manage to pull it off very swiftly without much exertion.<\/p>\n
Album closer \u201cForevermore\u201d kicks into high gear right from the get-go and never slows down, not even for a minute. Guitarists Jon Donais and Matt Bachand were a great, dynamic team together, and this is a great all-around showcase for both of them. Though Shadows haven\u2019t released an album in quite some time as the members pursue other projects, the music continues to keep a load of fans\u2019 interest going, particularly if they\u2019re looking for some of the most extreme metal ever created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":32941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9921],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-44716","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-shadows-fall","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44716"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}