SEVENDUST
Animosity (TVT)
Reviewed by Melanie Campbell

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You'll have to excuse those of us who are still in a happy state of shock over the state of modern radio. After years of being force-fed boy bands and the high-school surf-punk-variant begat by grunge, suddenly we're all wallowing in... mega-metal!! It's loud, it's snotty, and it's everywhere. Man, isn't it great? One of the more interesting bands to arrive on this N-metal scene is Sevendust, who recorded parts of Animosity while in the studio in Orlando, next door to...O-Town, Lou Perleman's latest Svengali- boy-band-project. Ha ha! Oh, the irony! Oh, the symbolism! Gods of metal, coming along to slay, do in, and vanquish all that wussy pseudo-pop dreckage with dissonant-skronk-married-to-nifty-melodies by the truckload. ARRRGH!! Yeah!! Already charting out of the box on the strength of the single "Praise," Sevendust's third full-length release shows that even ear-splitting decibel- overdrive can be downright melodic at the same time. If this is the direction that music is going, and rock radio is actually going along for the ride this time, let it roll, baby...

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