As this album is presented as a part one it does sound incomplete even at the girth of 14 tracks. The band do a great cover of LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knock You Out" with Tech N9ne and it is totally worth a listen. The devastation of the lyrics are much more believable here than they were on the original. The album has some really good tracks like "Dot Your Eyes" and "Burn MF" but they just don't make it to the level of the best from American Capitalist.
The albums best track is the first single and lead off number "Lift Me Up" with the legendary Rob Halford. The album never comes close to matching that song again even though I don't dislike anything on Volume 1. I have to say the candidate for second single/video should be "Watch You Bleed" this song is a beast and at major ear shattering volume sounds even better. The song "You" is also worth a mention because it takes their heavy sound and mixes their commercial sound together enough to create another excellent song. The only song on this album that I'm not too impressed with is "Wrong Side Of Heaven". The song just doesn't capture any energy or emotion and comes off really lame especially when lyrics like "I heard from god today she sounded just like me" and then the same basic line but the devil and looked like him. Stupid lyrics like this have no place in good metal and just make me roll my eyes with disdain.
I can only hope that the band works more of this sound into their second volume along with the superior song writing of "Lift Me Up" as I'd prefer this more dynamic sound over too much of the overtly aggressive tracks that can come to blur together. As far as it goes though Five Finger Death Punch do not disappoint and released an album worth heading down to your favorite record store to purchase a copy.
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