Sevendust – ‘Kill The Flaw’ [Review]
11 albums into a world-beating career, keeping things fresh and interesting is a tough ask. Still, Sevendust have good reason to keep looking forward, possessing a fanatical fanbase hungry for freshly forged metal.
Kill The Flaw grooves hard from the get-go, rammed to the gills with churning riffs (opener Thank You), super-tight modern stabs (Death Dance), and unstoppable tidal waves of metallic tones (Forget). Letters pulls back briefly before the brilliantly structured Cease And Desist takes things to a new, epic level; Not Today anxiously twitches before those intimidatingly on-it, none-more-syncopated riffs slam unapologetically into existence; Chop takes a tangential turn into acoustic territory, alternating between the laid-back and the crushingly dense; and title track Kill The Flaw possesses one of the meatiest kick-drum sounds I’ve heard in a while, driving a truly great, soaring song.
Three of eleven tracks to go. Silly Beast‘s flickering electronica gets washed away by whirlwind guitars; Peace And Destruction contrasts not just words but brain-smashing riffs and spacious clean segments; and Torched maintains vicious high-energy hardcore brutality through to its dying moments.
Overall: An uncompromisingly bruising collection of tracks that showcase Sevendust at the top of their game after 19 years on the go. Wow.
TMMP RATING: 91%
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