Because of my fondness for this release, and a desire to save the band postage, I have taken the liberty to write reviews on their behalf in the style of some well-known rock publications:

1. Raise-the-horns metal magazine style review:

If the recent World Series and Super Bowl victories were not enough to convince you of Boston supremacy, heavy groove rock power trio WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE may do the trick with “Wreck of the Minot”, their second full-length release on Underdogma Records. Frontman Jim Healey’s wardancing HELMET riffs and Glen Danzig croons deliver the goods like a meth-obsessed Domino’s driver. Produced by Ethan Dussault (GREATDAYFORUP, GARRISON), this disc’s combination of impressive, though-provoking songs, slamming stoner riffs, and ZEP-like clean guitar segments are bound to plant smiles and bruise foreheads nationwide.

2. Martin Popoff style / BWBK review:

Emerging once again from the squirming, stinging mound of the Boston metal scene, rock trio WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE kicks up a muscular dust tussle of camo-clad metal and vulnerable get-off-my-back jangles, likeable and immediate yet often long-winded and glass eyed. Overall, its well-recorded, low on clichés, and high on Jim Healey’s badass swinging girder guitar and lizard king blues croons, best being the clawing basement thrash of “I am the Messiah”. There’s hot wisps of stomping Charlie Benante drum vibe and a vague suggestion of early 90s Amph Rep whitewash. The whole deal sits on a leafy bed of brainy songwriting, but the boorish slips into yawny stoner buzzing and a couple of throwaway tunes keep WAGD at arm’s length from a true can’t-miss-it release.

3. My review:

There's a certain type of rock fan that will adore this latest WAGD release. For example, that crave that bit at the back end of THE CULT's "Love Removal Machine" after Duffy's last solo when he kinda 'gropes' his way back to the main riff should feel right at home. How about that calm-before-the-storm vibe of MEGADETH's "Good Mourning", especially when Davey says, "What the fuck is this?!!" Go on, admit it - you love it.

Well, I'm partial to that stuff too. So is Jim, Scott, and Russ from WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE. And their latest tightrope-walk between smoldering chug and gleaming melody, "The Wreck of the Minot" is their latest domino to fall. "Trike" is the greatest song that AUDIOSLAVE never wrote. "Evil Red" is hypnotic and clever, rolling its stone-slab bassline down a massive hill, occasionally colliding with villages of guitar crash. I'd like to say that this disc has more melancholy moments than 2003's "Go to Hell" album, but when I hear the Mustaine-isms of "I am the Messiah", I'm not so sure. One thing I can declare with complete confidence is that if you crave commanding vocals, stampeding power, and that "Domino" song from the first MASTERS OF REALITY album, you'll find this one scrumptious.

- Marchman

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