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Album Review
by SashaS
29-6-2005
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Throwdown: 'Vendetta'
(Roadrunner)
Throwdown: heavenly heavy
From the initial note of ‘Vendetta’, Throwdown simply burn, pillage and satisfy one’s need for adrenaline-fuelled music at… any time of the night, or day! It is a huge, ass-kicking, blowing, bursting out, it is enormously furious!
The Orange County four-piece wrote and rehearsed the album in Huntington Beach [spiritual home to Korn, as well] but recorded at Planet Z Studios in Massachusetts with Zeuss [producer of Hatebreed and Shadow’s Fall]. As a supplant to 2003’s breakthrough ‘Haymaker’, it is more diverse as well as madder at… well, everything.
“‘Vendetta’ is more pissed [off] than ‘Haymaker’,” vocalist Dave Peters explains, “and a lot more diverse too. The fast parts are faster, the breakdowns more crushing and the guitars, drums and especially vocals are a lot more dynamic than anything we’ve done. Everyone from Madball fans to Pantera and Slayer fans can get into it.”
Mixing elements of hardcore history on the title track as if honouring Black Flag while other more mentally metallic tracks side them along the colossuses of the genre, including Sepultura [whose ‘Roots’ they were covering on the last year’s OzzFest US tour].
‘We Will Rise’, ‘Speak The Truth’, ‘To Live Is to Sacrifice’, ‘Burn’, ‘This Is Where It Ends’… Although their song titles speak volumes, as if their own forces - alongside Peters we have Matt Mentley (guitar), Dom Macaluso (bass) and Ben Dussault (drums) - weren’t enough, they invited Howard Jones (Killswitch Engage) to guest on ‘The World Behind’ and Sean Martin (Hatebreed) on ‘Shut You Down’.
‘Vendetta’ is as heavy as the heaviest thing you can think of. It also demonstrates why fans of the band believe they could take over the vacancy left open since Pantera’s demise. Throwdown are set to tour the UK this Autumn. In meantime, get to know them well via this killer disc that lasts just over 39 minutes!
8/10
SashaS
29-6-2005
Throwdown album ‘Vendetta’ is released 27 June 2005 by Roadrunner
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