Style: Chaotic extreme metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: Have you ever seen Scanners? The scene at the beginning where the dude's head blows up... yeah that's this album
Thoughts: How many riffs did you say you wanted? Oh ok... let me check the menu. Does five hundred sound reasonable to you? No, too many? I would suggest you take your business elsewhere then.
After a long period of inactivity Devy decided it was time to make a new SYL album. The self titled was... lack luster at best... at least in my humble estimation. Well, I think Hevy Devy heard my complaints and wrote an album specifically for me... because Alien addresses every. single. issue I had with the self titled.
The previous album wasn't very dynamic... Alien has more riffs than there are stars in the sky. I didn't think that a lot of the songs on the self titled had good transitions or riffs... the riffs here are so heavy and so fucking powerful that the crush me into dust. The transitions? Better than even those found on City. I felt that the self titled was too calm. Alien? Well we have a full choir playing over three guitars, playing over Gene's insane drumming playing over a xylophone playing over bass drops, all while modulating tones and keys every other measure. I think that'll do.
Alien is the magnum opus of Strapping Young Lad. This is the craziest shit they ever released. It's the angriest Devy ever was, and it has all of the members at the top of their game. It's a Shitstorm and I love it.
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