Album Description Import-only pressing of this 2006 album includes the bonus track 'Give Us This Day.' Emerging from Elizabethton, Tenn., this crushing five-piece band has crafted an epic Heavy Metal sound for listeners who enjoy their music relentless. The Showdown's style shifts effortlessly and unforgivingly from Southern Rock to European Death Metal and everything in between. Century Media.
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a number of really good songs and well done heavy metal. Their best CD.
The Showdown Mar 23, 2007
Excellent tunes with that hard core advantage. If you like the Showdown your in for a treat.
Good Album, Great Band, Okay Song-writing Feb 21, 2007
Again, I want to rate the album 5 stars, but like with their latest offering, flaws prevent me...I know, the Children-of-Bodomish "Hell Can't Stop Us Now" is great, and so is the next three tracks after that. I would even say that the first five songs are flawless and smart, but then it gets a little worse...I agree with Timothy Perrine that this album in places sounds too formulaic or downright uninspiring. Even the first five songs lack originality, I can handpick its counterparts in other band's discography if I wanted to...This is a solid debut, but it is way overrated, as the problem is actually 99% of modern metal sounds exactly like The Showdown's debut...Oh, and the name has got to go...But after all I am giving this 4 stars because the band shows signs of potential greatness, and it is especially evident on the closing song, a slow semi-balad turns death metal scorcher...To fast forward to present day, I prefer "Temtation Come My Way" a lot more...But that is another story...To sum up, The Showdown could be great and their two albums are the evidence. They are with no doubt very skillful and talented bunch, but to achieve greatness of Mastodon, 80's Metallica or ANY Megadeth record,not to mention Dark Tranquility or Opeth,well, THAT takes to quote "Syriana" "Luck and hard work". The Showdown seem to show singns of both so let's give them a few years...Megadeth wasn't built in a day...
Catchy and Enjoyable, if not great Dec 31, 2006
Actually, i would give this album 3.5 out of 5 stars, but that was not an option.
The Showdown is able to write some solid metal. The game here is Metalcore, and they do a good job. The album is very listenable and very enjoyable. I've listened to this CD many times and have always walked away pleased. I often find myself humming and singing? screaming? vocalizing? the lyrics after i listen. The Showdown is good at writing catchy, memoriable, and enjoyable songs.
That being said, this album is also somewhat uninspired. The music, though catchy, is not praticularlly overwhelming. The skill behind this album is good; but not great. Some of the songs really shine ("A Monument Encased in Ash" the title track, "Your Name Is Victory" "A Proclamation of Evil's Fate") while others are somewhat mundane ("Your Name Is Defeat" "From The Mouth Of Gath Comes Terror"). If one is looking for some true technicial skill, or some insane trash, or perhaps some Prog Metal, this is not the place. This remains run-of-the-mill metalcore, to it's core.
In the end this is a solid, memoriable, enjoyable album that has some great songs, but is held back by skill and a few weak tracks. Not great, but certainly better than most of this genre.
Classic thrash meets numetal Oct 10, 2006
I first saw these guys play with Project 86... My first reaction was that they are damned talented and they know how to put on an entertaining show, but I have never really been into the screaming. Well, since this show, my friends have gotten really into The Showdown and I have to admit, this cd has really grown on me. The instrumentation is remeniscent of 80's/90's thrash metal like Metallica or Tourniquet. The singing features mostly screaming, which is admittedly not my favorite style, but the strength of the guitars (with tons of great metal riffs and solos) and drums (excellent double-kicking and blazing hands fills) take me back to that great show with Project 86 and I am quickly caught up in the intensity and authentic energy that is a stark reminder of what metal used to be... now that I think of it, this cd could easily pass as an unreleased early 90's Tourniquet album. If you miss the good old days of thrash metal, do yourself a favor and buy this cd.
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