If you love metal, you could easily ponder the heaviness, incredible hooks, the brilliant speed and drugging sludge of this latest effort for a long time. If you hate metal, you might reflect that at least this is more succinct and cohesive than most of the stuff you’ve heard and, of course, less cartoonish than the faux-metal they peddle out to schoolchildren. If, like me, you have a few metal albums you return to (Remission,Reign in Blood,Master of Puppets when I’m feeling sassy ) but feel ambivalent about the step-child genre of pop music, you might ask: so what? These guys, for all their rock, won’t be able to tell you. Their job is to play, not to signify, and they do their job well. 2.5/5
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