I could make this one real easy by just saying "buy this record or be gay’ or something as basic and the sorry thing is that’d be all you needed to know, G.
But I could dive a bit further into it. Alien is the newest full length record from Strapping Young Lad and I can say w/o hesitation that it’s one of the most badassed fucking discs relaesed this year. The music Dev is making now is infinitely more powerful and hateful than anything I’ve heard in a while. Surely there are bands around the globe who’ve listened to Fear Factory’s masterpiece - Demanufacture - well and come up with something alike, but listening to Alien is like taking deep breaths of your grandpa’s farts after he ate a super burrito from Ihop. It is that deadly. It’s true Fear Factory bulit the house w/ Demanufacture in the 90’s - but that matters little when you push play on this disc. Try We Ride, ShitStorm and Shine fo starters - brace yerself tho - this one’ll punish you.
SYL need to tour with Ministry. I figure if Al ever gets outta hand and starts running around on stage like a mad scientist they could just get Gene-zilla to sit on him.
3.5 outta 4