Review Summary: More like Code AWESOME
Good old heavy metal. Metal that is heavy is the stuff of legends and Code Red holds the key to that epic past. The album art, depicting a glorious bird, is perfect because the lead singer sounds like a screeching hawk. Contrary to how that may sound, his voice is amazing and quite crunchy like biting celery. However, he also hits high notes. Can the man do everything? Yes, apparently.
Of course, with these boomers, they’re gonna whine about cancel culture. Perhaps they might even write a song called Cancel Culture, and put it on an album like it’s some brilliant, epic moment. It is not, and the lyrics in that song are average as ***. I could waste an entire paragraph talking about the wasted potential there, and thus I 90% did. As far as the rest of the lyrics, they are typical fist-pumping energy raisers. With that knowledge, their sins are forgiven, because the lyrics perfectly match their sinister battlefield metal.
A lot could’ve happened to make this release hit snooze, but instead we’re treated with heavy metal gold. I mean like this *** will burn your nose hairs off without the help of gasoline infused, alcoholic cake. The choruses sound like Vikings murdering people, and though I do not condone murder somehow it works. Don’t try this at home folks, if you do your homemade dinky band will sound *** in comparison.
Every song is as good as the first song. You might think, “Wow, these guys can shred and sing too!”, and you are correct. This album takes a great big dump on Metallica’s latest like it’s same ol’, operation normal. All you Metallica fanboys should check this out too, like right now.
