Pretty much the final word in the metal opera sweepstakes, the apex of achievement and effort versus the disproportionately minimal attention this will get.
Despite its tiresome themes of mutilation and zombification, this lives up to the band’s legacy by combining vicious technicality with bang-worthy stomps.
The Police, The Clash, and Sublime have tasted of the Two-Tone fruit, so why not a thrash band? Because they throw it in as thoughtlessly as a movie sample.
In under three minutes, “Rather be Dead” took metalcore to its zenith, and rendered it obsolete. Seriously, where do you go after such a revelatory statement?
Evolving evermore, these enigmatic Finns have transformed into a blasting rock act amidst Paradise Lost, mid-paced Metallica, Sentenced, and Dream Theater.