Today Is The Day
In the Eyes of God
[Relapse]
Though this album has been in my possession for only a week, I'm more than
ready to review it. This is my first time having heard Today Is The Day, I
can assure you I will be looking into this band's back catalog.
There are so many sounds in TITD's music that it seems ridiculous to think they can pull off what all of Relapse's hype promises. While Relapse made the rather humorous mistake of marketing diSEMBOWELMENT as a Satanic doom band, they were right on the mark with TITD's description. This stuff is filled to the brim with hatred, anger and fucking violence. For example, the superb final song ("There Is No End") closes in a way that brings back memories of Ministry's In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up.
Steve Austin--vocals, guitar, electronics and all around head honcho--is an angry man and he has a vision worth . Tracks like "Possession", "Bionic Cock", "There Is No End" and a multitude of the remaining seventeen songs positively ooze with raw fury and energy; most of it's real, too, since the police interrupted the band 11 (!) times for playing too loud during the recording. Austin mixes it up with growls, distorted screaming, clean singing and spoken parts. Musically, the band fuses together elements of death metal, hard-core, tinges of industrial and some psychedelia to create surprisingly aggressive yet hypnotic metal. "Who Is the Black Angel?" brings to mind the Floridian god-fathers Death while some songs dredge up thoughts of Sabbath, but in the end Today Is The Day is definitely a ground-breaking metal band. This may not be for everyone, but true metallers--those who can appreciate every sub-genre within heavy metal--will shit themselves in glee. This is metal for the millennium.
© 1999 goden
There are so many sounds in TITD's music that it seems ridiculous to think they can pull off what all of Relapse's hype promises. While Relapse made the rather humorous mistake of marketing diSEMBOWELMENT as a Satanic doom band, they were right on the mark with TITD's description. This stuff is filled to the brim with hatred, anger and fucking violence. For example, the superb final song ("There Is No End") closes in a way that brings back memories of Ministry's In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up.
Steve Austin--vocals, guitar, electronics and all around head honcho--is an angry man and he has a vision worth . Tracks like "Possession", "Bionic Cock", "There Is No End" and a multitude of the remaining seventeen songs positively ooze with raw fury and energy; most of it's real, too, since the police interrupted the band 11 (!) times for playing too loud during the recording. Austin mixes it up with growls, distorted screaming, clean singing and spoken parts. Musically, the band fuses together elements of death metal, hard-core, tinges of industrial and some psychedelia to create surprisingly aggressive yet hypnotic metal. "Who Is the Black Angel?" brings to mind the Floridian god-fathers Death while some songs dredge up thoughts of Sabbath, but in the end Today Is The Day is definitely a ground-breaking metal band. This may not be for everyone, but true metallers--those who can appreciate every sub-genre within heavy metal--will shit themselves in glee. This is metal for the millennium.
© 1999 goden