The new Nails is in my inbox and it is GOOD. Every Bridge Burning is the bands first new album in eight years and it is a crusher in every sense of the world. The band who left us in awe with their heaviness on Unsilent Death and Abandon All Life has reached a new level. As much as I think the world was impressed by You Will Never Be One Of Us, this new record sees the band ratcheting up to a devastating new level. This is some of the most intense, personal and soul crushing music of Nails' career and it's impossible not to be enamored with it.
There is something deliciously devastating to this record. Song titles like "Lacking The Ability To Process Empathy" and "I Can't Turn It Off" give you an immediate sense of what this record is about and how punishing it gets. This is the sound of every dark feeling you've had at once boiling to the top and tearing heads off. Every Bridge Burning has it all, the unrepentant heaviness of the first two records and the polish of You Will Never Be One Of Us. With that - they find a way to transcend all that they have done in the past and leave me in awe of what's to come.
This record clocks in at just under 18 minutes, and every second of it is filled with chaotic, unyielding and crippling fucking heaviness. There is no other path forward from this, no sense of hope, just pure crushing despair, and it only gets more nightmarish as you delve deeper into the record. By the time you get to the album closer, "No More Rivers To Cross" which weighs in at a lengths 3:14, you've been beaten over the head and left to die. The final song is just a kick in the ribs. Suffice it to say - this record rules, there's no other way to say it.
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