Strapping Young Lad – “The New Black”
The psycho scream funny farm robot fry chicken master Devin Townsend delivers a lemon hot battery acid salt loony bin barrage of strange and comical metal-jazz-spazz-thrash. “U Suck” and “Wrong Side” are the most intense and catchy. “Antiproduct” is a lounge jazz metal number, sort of weird. “Monument” is layered with background studio sounds. “Hope” is another simple track backed up with more studio symphonics. “Far beyond Metal” is gang-shouted vocals, etc. Overall, Devin screams and sings, while the guitar is pretty simple, nothing complex and relies heavily on studio technology to sound bigger. More than anything, this is supposed to be fun, funny, simple, mosh-friendly, etc. Devin can release albums like this every month, which he seems to do anyway.