S.Y.L. - Strapping Young Lad 

I was looking forward for this release of S.Y.L. and I was expecting something legendary...maybe I was just wondering, City was too much not only for the music but also for the atmosphere in the circumstances that it was released, and expecting that Mr. Townsend releasing City Pt. II was too much egoistic...
City was the pessimistic vision of a man facing the entrance to the new millennium, and then S.y.l. is the anger and depreciation for this new era and the whole album is surrounded with an unpleasant aura of bitterness...
The guitar sound is more heavier near to some Death Metal productions and the drums too, many of the industrial experimentations are no more, in some ways this album sounds more "conventional" and "controlled" without the blind fury and madness of City, it seems that S.y.l. now are totally aware of the style that S.y.l. must play, believe me is a goddamn good album and Devin vocal style is once more astonishing and totally crazy in some moments but the album itself sounds a bit too much controlled, I really miss that sense of pure chaos that S.y.l. was...   

Sephrenel     Vote: 4,5/6

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