The lovely goatlike creatures on the back of this disc pointed me to an excellent straight-ahead metal album with doom overtones. DTP vocalist Steve Janiak finds a middle ground singing style somewhere between John Garcia and Alice Cooper, and his voice in a lot of ways is the perfect complement to the high-octane grooves he shares with lead guitarist Rob Secrist. Albums like this are great, because every song is built around a new, killer riff that makes the time just fly by and it's over before you know it. "Angular Shapes" gets your blood pumping with a great groove a la Sweden's BLIND DOG, while "The New Black" alternates between doomy clouds and Les Paul dirt'....creating much of the same dynamics as PENTAGRAM's "Evil Seed". My pick for strongest track would be "Tractor Fuckin' Trailer", primarily for the DOZER groove and the lyric "she's double axeled - bends all ways". No matter how I try to interpret that lyric, it brings pleasant thoughts, y'know? The bottom line is that this is an excellent debut, and a great collection of riffs and horns (and I don't mean trumpets or clarinets, either).

- Marchman

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