| 06: To Live Is To Sacrifice |
| 10: Annihilation (N.W.D.) |
| 11: This Is Where It Ends |
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 Orange County is more than sunny beaches, palm trees and buxom babes. Underneath the surface lies a slow-boiling tension between the haves and the have-nots.
There's a hostility simmering within those who struggle to transcend, to become more, and to fight back against a social value system that has sold them short and offered them little in the way of true comfort, loyalty, or respect. It's a dissatisfaction that can't be pacified with life's material luxuries and one that refuses to remain unheard.
And now that desire to fight back - an urgency that unites the dispossessed across racial, gender and geographical borders - has found a new soundtrack in "Vendetta," the blisteringly heavy new album from Throwdown.
"Shut You Down," "Speak The Truth" and "Burn" are sure to become part of the band's well-established pit-invoking anthemic cannon the moment fans of 2003's breakthrough album "Haymaker" hear them spinning out of their CD players.
Throwdown truly found their voice, both literally and figuratively, with "Haymaker." The songs on the band's Trustkill Records debut, most notably the MTV2 "Headbanger's Ball" staple "Forever," were the next logical step forward for the band, who rightly elected to elevate their status beyond "project" into a full-time touring machine.
What allows the band to persist and endure, and has made "Vendetta" the fullest realization of their vision, is the urgency inherent in their music and their fiercely loyal dedication to their friends, families, fans, and each other. The new album, like all great records, speaks to the frustrations of the outsider, uniting the masses through their shared struggles, and calling out the common enemies amongst the backstabbers and liars.
"This is all that's driving me. This is a... Vendetta." |
Produced, Engineered & Mixed By Zeuss.
Co-Produced by Dave Peters & Dom Macaluso.
Digital Editor and Click Track Fluffer: Rob Gil.
Recorded at Planet Z Studios, February 7, 2005 to March 5, 2005.
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side.
Howard Jones appears on “The World Behind” courtesy of Roadrunner Records.
1997 F. Sean Martin appears on “Shut You Down” courtesy of Universal Records.
Art direction & design by Asterik Studio, Seattle (asterikstudio.com)
Photography by Jeff Gros (iamgros.com) |
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