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Brilliant Album From Newly Reenergized More Mature Godsmack!
To keep it short, this album is simply brilliant. The album retains the masterful, driving energy of its predecessors while at the same time revealing, growing lyrical depth and maturity in their song writing. New drummer Shannon Larkin brings new energy and excellent drumming skills to the table. While Godsmack's drummers have never been less than great, Shannon seems to be the best so far. Personally I'd like to see Sully take the drums, but Shannon is great.
Immediately one will notice that the songs seem more upbeat. From the getgo, the album opens with gunfire reminiscent of Metallica's One. The drum salvo comes in with force, a common theme in the album, the drums are right there powering the songs. Godsmack, gone soft? Heck no! There as heavy as ever, except this time around they've got a middle eastern track on there, serenity that has some sweet string work by underrated guitarist Tony Rombola. Speaking of which, hes back, better than ever...he even abandons his wah pedal a couple of times on the album, like on one of the strongest offerings of the album, "Realign", in which he delivers a superb solo worthy of praise.
The songs are all masterfully crafted, drawing on Godsmacks strengths; its strong powerful lyrics and mesa-boogie amps and Gibson Les Paul guitars. Many of the songs hit you like a train with there drop C powered riffs. Every solo on the album is great, it is evident that Tony Rombola spent much more time on these solos, (a tribute to there long lockdown in a house isolated from outside musical influences in which they wrote this album.) Every song feels fresh and the album flows quite well. The riffs are more complex than before and the vocal melodies are better than ever, with Sully testing his range on such tracks as "Changes", "Make Me Believe", and "Realign" among others. Its admirable to see him moving to new levels with his trademark voice. He has also moved away from his typical bitter, even hateful lyrics, offering more inciteful reflective lyrics this time around although he clearly doesn't abandon his roots as is shown in the track, "I *** hate you."
Although the album is a bit short for my tastes, clocking in at just over 47 minutes, every minute is great. Much more care has been taken in song construction and the songs now have some lead and more diverse structures even some clean portions! The casual metal fan will enjoy this album greatly and the Godsmack fan will love it, in my opinion it is there strongest album to date.
1. Straight out of line - Great song, nice solo, solid riff, excellent drumming
2. Faceless - Wah driven song, (think Whatever), great solo, very powerful
3. Changes - Catchy nice chorus, great solo, good lyrics, solid riffing, excellent drumming
4. Make Me Believe - Sully testing his range here, GREAT riff all around (look for the guitar part before chorus...heck yeah!), nice little solo as always, Good Bridge (More Sully experimentation, meaningful, almost sad lyrics
5. I Stand Alone - Great solid song, nice chorus, great verse riff, superb drums (credit to Tommy Stewart there), pure Godsmack here
6. Re-Align - perhaps the strongest offering here, a little reminiscent of awake on chorus riff, solid vocal melody, KILLER wah-less SOLO!
7. I *** Hate you - Powerful Grinding riff that sucks you in, good lyrics for a hate song, typical godsmack song, but more energy and GREAT RIFF
8. Releasing the Demons - very cool verses, nice guitar work, cool little syncopated bridge grind, classic "awake" like, but different at the same time.
9. Dead and Broken - Great lyrically a little reminiscent of the style of "mistakes" in intro, nice verse riff, some cool tremolo pick classic Godsmack lead
10. I Am - a little reminiscent in into of "trippin", GREAT LYRICS, "Death will come when I'm good and ready!", nice bridge classic ozzy/creed/metallica like bridge, nice background lead
11. The Awakening - Think "The Journey" from awake, a congo drum solo intro thing to next track very cool, Shannons got skills baby
12. Serenity - The "bands answer to voodoo", sweet acoustic stuff and other strings, great, reflective lyrics, and a cool middle eastern feel, songs like this show Godsmacks great talents and diverse influenses, effectively closes album, great track

This album is pure "energy rock", as Sully stated. It takes all of Godsmacks strengths, adds more mature and reflective lyrics, some freaking awesome solos, better riffs, and an amazing drummer to the mix with great success. This is one of the best albums in my collection which is wide and diverse if I do say so myself. Buy this album, even if you don't get it for $9 during the first week it is out, it is worth every penny of whatever its price. Buy it now and treat yourself to great music from one of the greatest bands of modern times.

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Faceless - The probably will in be in after the next album
Before the official release of "Faceless" Godsmack singer Sully Erna made a bold statement to the metal world and press by saying " I can guarantee you one thing right now, nobody is going to sound like this !#!$##$# record! I know bands said this before but that's b#@$#$#!. Staind, P.O.D, Korn I don't care they won't sound like this record!" Though it's quite true that in metal right now nobody with the exception of Metallica is sticking to metal and hard rock through classic roots of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath like Godsmack are, that doesn't mean that they have recorded a jaw dropping original masterpiece. Though Sully and company are overly excited and proud about this new material, it seems that the average metal listener has heard similar material before, not just through Godsmack's first two albums but through classic bands such as Alice In Chains and Metallica. Though Godsmack were never known for their originality, they knew how to take the best elements of grunge,metal, and hard rock and make it to a catchy radio friendly album "Godsmack". However that album didn't satisfy more metal hungry goers, which led Godsmack's credibility to be questioned. This led Godsmack to release a heavier, more industrial induced follow up "Awake". However many fans believed that Godsmack were using the same riffage as Sevendust and Alice In Chains. So now comes Faceless. "I can guarantee you one thing right now" It's now going to stop the critics that have questioned Godsmack for so long. The album is not horribly bad, there are great hooks and riffs scattered through the album, yet Godsmack play it safe and play similar material from their first and second album. "Straight out of Line" the first catchy single covered all to familiar territory from their first album but it's just less radio friendly. The track "Faceless" sounds like "Awake"s little cousin. "I Stand Alone" and "Dead and Broken" are catchy too but nothing special. Finally the last tracks sound like leftover songs from "Godsmack" and "Awake" sessions that weren't good enough to make it on those albums. Though it's obvious that Godsmack weren't going to make a radical departure, it would have been nice if they at least been more creative with their lyrics "I F!#$&$ Hate you anyone!" Well Godsmack lovers will love this album and that's fine. But if you are a casual fan and really want to buy one of their albums then I suggest you might as well get Faceless since it has a lot of elements from their prior albums and very little new elements. Well, at least the new album art is cool.

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Crap
This band is terrible. This sounds exactly like their other two albums, and somehow they manage to copy Metallica AND Alice In Chains at the same time (in fact, "God Smack" is a song off of Alice In Chains' classic album Dirt). Come on guys, open your eyes, these guys are totally unoriginal radio nu-metal.