Today is the Day CD - SuperNova
It's easy to hear why Amphetamine Reptile snatched Today is The Day up like it was nobody's business way back in the day; they are of the elite cloth, forged from the fieriest riffs, the most tortuous screams, the most technical drum death. It's tough to imagine a more perfect metal maelstrom. The bands 1996 album, Today is the Day, reissued here with two bonus tracks tacked on, shivers with viciousness so intense you can't sit for more than a few seconds if you're left in a room with it. And just when you've gotten comfortable in one of the velvet-soft midsections, all tucked in and ready to drift off to sleep, you're stabbed in the face again. Hovering throughout the proceedings are prog leanings you wouldn't imagine possible, especially attached to such a round-sounding act. If there is truly a band that can brutalize and inspire at the same time, it is Steve Austins Today is the Day. If you, like me, are late to the game on this one, do yourself a favor and take your time to hear this record, it's predecessors Will power and supernova (the latter of which has also recently been reissued via Steve Austins Label Supernova Records.), or any other release from it's highly focused trio of metal craftsmen. They sound as timely today as they did more than a decade ago.
(Grant Purdum)
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