ALBUM REVIEW: Truck Violence – The Weathervane is my body


Canadian Folk-Punks Truck Violence built a great deal of buzz with their 2024 debut, and their sophomore release, The Weathervane is my body (The Flenser),  finds them scaling back some of the backwoods folk that colored their first album and digging deeper into the Noise Rock side of the equation. This brings a more angular dissonance to the songs. The vocals are a mix of moans and howls over the boozy attack of guitar with a precise ugliness to create something beautiful. Some of these moments might not be as overtly metal as a band like Chat Pile, though this album would appeal to the less metal-minded members of their fan base. It is a different shade of the dark corners of an unsettled mind through a more pastoral lens. Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Sevendust – One – Napalm Records


 

Atlanta Metal groovers Sevendust are back with their 15th album, One (Napalm Records). A great deal here rides on where you left off with these guys, for some, Home was the last album they were invested in before they felt the Nu-Metal bandwagon had left them. For others, Animosity might have been the point of disconnect. In the case of these first two options, this album is going to come as a surprise, as it finds them making a seamless transition into the kind of Metal bands like Spiritbox are making. But given that the band has had a large enough audience to keep releasing over a dozen records in the new millennium, their fan base will find this a logical next step, as it retains the big riffs and soulful vocals that define the band. Continue reading →