{"id":549,"date":"2026-03-07T11:03:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/theoutcast\/theoutcast\/reviews\/strapping-young-lad-the-new-black\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T17:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:03:52","slug":"strapping-young-lad-the-new-black","status":"publish","type":"reviews","link":"https:\/\/adkoi.com\/theoutcast\/reviews\/strapping-young-lad-the-new-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Strapping Young Lad &#8211; &#8220;The New Black&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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. &#8220;U Suck&#8221; and &#8220;Wrong Side&#8221; are the most intense and catchy. &#8220;Antiproduct&#8221; is a lounge jazz metal number, sort of weird. &#8220;Monument&#8221; is layered with background studio sounds. &#8220;Hope&#8221; is another simple track backed up with more studio symphonics. &#8220;Far beyond Metal&#8221; 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. 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