Resurrection

What the hell is wrong with this band? Everytime they show that they have some real potential to go the distance (I'm referring to their self titled album), they always have to go and shit all over it. What the fuck.

The album starts off on a really, really strong note (Resurrection), blazing through the riffs with a killer mini-solo about 1:20 in, really good, and it really stands out. Unfortunately, this is one of the only things that stand out.

Whereas self titled had a lot of riffage in it (Save Ourselves comes to mind), it seems that on this album they simply got bored of writing interesting riffs after the title track.

The album basically meanders through itself with no sense of direction, and no chance of putting itself back on course, at least until the final track, but by then it's too late. Most of the riffage is completely heartless, even the drumming barely stands out. Most of the time all it really does is provide a course for the guitars to follow. Or is it the guitars that provide the course for the drums? Really, that's how mediocre this album this is. NOTHING stands out!

If you've heard, or own Impossibility of Reason, you may as well stick with that; because that's basically what this album is.

For me, at least, Chimaira's real debut was their self titled, and was their last album.

Do not buy this record.