"The Venom Inside" is a great track to star off this record with this great guitar intro, start of an epic... then we hear the growl of the vocalist, Mark Hunter, and the drums at the 1:05 mark. It has this slow groove and beat, that is kind of addictive; not a bad start. "Frozen In Time" follows with a slow beat that picks up after a minute, and do I hear light strings? Then it has a little breakdown,and the drums working, but muted. The song ends with some nice guitar. Who is the one that called himself a writer? Not me. "Coming Alive" is better than coming undone, which has his raspy growl more in the line of Corey Taylor's to some extent. Slow beats and nice guitar solo in the song, and as they get to the chorus at the end the dual vocals work well. "Secrets of the Dead" has great instrumentals, and the delivery of vocals works well with this song, "The Dissappearing Sun," has a good intro, and the slow beats work well, though you can still hear the double bass here and there. Around the two minute mark the tempo picks up and we hear some of his screams as he gets his chicken little on "I won't, I won't turn to dust (2x)/ The sky is falling/the end is near/the final warning the sun dissappears;" and the last minute or so ends with brooding guitar.The next song has these muted vocals that then jump to the vile raspy scream of Hunter around the fifty second mark, and interchange several times; the singing you can finally hear around 3:25 mark. This is probably one of my favorites, it has this nice breakdown, nice groove and instrumentals, but the lyrics are dark and depressing. As it should be from a song called "Impending Doom." The chorus goes " these problems don't have solutions/we are rotting inside this cell/our bodies are like a prison cell/only death will save us from this h#ll." "Broken Glass" doesn't seem so bad to walk on when one has survived impending doom, does it? It has this nasty kind of groove and beat changing at 2:15, with some angry pounding and some shredding; double bass drums; and his vocal delivery with ferocity. "Destroy and Dominate" is a good song too, but doesn't hit it's stride until the last minute and a half. Here is where I say it, his vocals work for some of the songs, but when the vocal delivery is the same through every song it starts to get tedious. "Try To Survive" has this great solo at the end,with that slow brooding groove, and some of the lyrics go along the introspective, but redemptive path "I know I haven't been reliable in the past/ you have had a hard time figuring me out/ but I can promise you one thing, one thing/ I can promise you one thing/ never will I/ surrender my fears, surrender my dreams." The final song, "The Heart of It All" is easily the longest, clocking in at 14:52, and has some great instrumentals. It is also good, because there is a break from the vocals, which aren't bad, but after several songs of growling and no singing, it gets tedious.It starts on a great note and ends on one too! Best Songs: The Venom Inside, Secrets of the Dead, The Dissappearing Sun, Impending Doom, Try to Survive, and The Heart of it All
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