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The New Black drags the listener through some fucked thoughts and intense builds of rhythm. A perfect mix of sinister vocals with walls of noise/beats. Now it isn’t balls out in your face like some earlier recordings; The New Black takes its time to fester within your mind before you realize how great an album this actually is. While the sounds stir around; a tension builds that Ends as a brutal force of psyched out technicality. This best describes “Hope”, and for the most part the entire album. Strapping Young Lad has grown to be far more fierce than what was “City”. SYL have been in the shadow of City for too many years now. It’s best to peel away from that album, and open your mind to SYL of today…..Then it strikes; a studio recording of “Far Beyond Metal”!! Holy fuckin’ shit, this only contradicts what I said to do a minute ago….Who gives a shit, The New Black is one of the best recordings of the year, and superior to The self titled SYL album. I have yet to hear the recent “Alien”, so I can’t comment if this is better or worse than that. What I do say is if you’re craving some progressive Industrial thrash….Canadian, and Gene Hoglan styled metal, then bus it to the nearest record shop. Devin’s various incarnations of mind experimentations are starting to blend/collide, becoming one. Which can be good or bad, depending on the listener. The New Black will definitely be on my top list at the end of the year.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Decimator |
| 2. U Suck |
| 3. Antiproduct |
| 4. Monument |
| 5. Wrong Side |
| 6. Hope |
| 7. Far Beyond Metal |
| 8. Fucker |
| 9. Almost Again |
| 10. Polyphony |
| 11. The New Black |
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