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Lifted by years of effort and a new distribution deal with Epic Records, Trustkill Records' Eighteen Visions broke onto the charts with 2004's Obsession, which set up the band's next release as a potential breakthrough. When a recording artist with a number of albums decides to name a new disc after itself, that's often a signal of an attempt at reinvention or introduction to a new audience, and such seems to be the case with Eighteen Visions. The album is not a break with the past, but it does mark a more complete realization of the band's goal of maintaining a distinct heavy metal/hardcore identity while suggesting it can master other styles as well. Lead singer James Hart calms down from his usual harsh howl to a conventional rock vocal style, and the band turns in a surprisingly accessible track, complete with a big, hooky chorus. Eighteen Visions can play contemporary metal with the best of them, turning out songs filled with pile-driving drum parts, thundering guitars, and Hart's obscenity laced, rage-filled screaming. But, unlike their many competitors, they are more than that, and they vary the formula just enough to emerge from the pack.
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TRACK LISTING
1 Our Darkest Days 2:52
2 Victim 2:58
3 Truth or Consequence 4:14
4 Burned Us Alive 3:42
5 Black and Bruised 3:21
6 Broken Hearted 4:05
7 Pretty Suicide 4:16
8 Coma 3:36
9 The Sweetest Memory 4:09
10 Last Night 3:35
11 Your Nightmare 3:27
12 Tonightless 5:39
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