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| Ditchwater are a heavy metal & hard rock band from the USA forming in 1993, releasing their debut album 'The Early Years' in 1999, and their sophomore album 'Sacred Relics' in 2001. Four more albums followed, 'Going Forward Looking Back' (2006), 'Strong Now Stained' (2007), 'Into The Storm' (2016) and 'Adrenaline' (2018), culminating in all six albums re-mastered and reissued in early 2019. 'Never Say Never' is the bands seventh studio album and was released in 2019. | ||||||
| Combining a heavy groove within their rock and metal roots, the new album from American metallers Ditchwater is one helluva catchy and infectious listen. With just thirty five minutes playing time and ten songs, eight of which clock in at less than four minutes, Ditchwater create an atmosphere of awe. 'Never Say Never' (the album) is a glorious journey of aural delight, with the climax a cracking cover of...nope, I ain't gonna tell you yet, you're just gonna have to wait. But right now, the album gets underway with the very heavy and pulsating 'Enemy Of The People'. Displaying a melodic groove of the heaviest nature, 'Enemy Of The People' is a barn storming start to the new album. And the barn storming dynamics don't stop there... They get even heavier! 'My Last Breath' is a heavy thump, a thundering thud, a foot stomp of epic proportions. That riff! Wow...so addictive and infectious. | ||||||
| And that is the theme for the rest of the album, pulsating riffs and rhythms all curled around a heavy groove. 'Against My Better Emotional Reasons' slows the pace, heavies the groove, and majestically swans about as if it owns the place. The epic and cinematic nature of 'Against My Better Emotional Reasons' is just phenomenal and will leave you in awe and wonder. Picking up the pace 'The End' gallops on, shattering the peace as it marches on loud and proud. Get that mosh pit moving, 'The End' deserves it. Delving into melodic metal territory 'The Pain' is mid tempo arrogance, a fiery blast of mid paced heavy groove. The incessant and pulsating rhythm Ditchwater maintain throughout this album is top notch, and in the mighty shape of 'The Way You Are' takes on a more aggressive aura. Hitting harder than ever, 'The Way You Are' is an intensely fierce barrage of heaviness. | ||||||
| 'It's All About You' is one of those songs that sounds so familiar you think you've heard it before, but try as you might you just cannot remember where. And, after an extensive internet search doesn't result in an answer, you're left wondering... But 'It's All About You' is so catchy, so memorable, so bloody familiar it's gonna bug you now forever where you've heard it before, well at least heard something like it before. The aggression filled aura returns in emphatic style with the heavy hitting 'How Many Times'. Changing through the gears, 'How Many Times' is fast, is slow, is mid paced, is fast again and so on. The final (original) song on offer is the more mellow 'Hands Held Out'. Well, mellow for the first minute anyway, before it erupts into a heavy hitting, body slamming, drop kicking aural assault. And so, to the cover song I wouldn't reveal earlier...it is an iconic song from 1982, by a legendary British heavy metal band, whose frontman and founder is widely regarded as the "God of heavy metal", who sadly passed away in 2015. Ditchwater have covered 'Iron Fist' by Motorhead, (off their album of the same name), and is an absolute corker. They have kept pace with the original, maintaining the songs punk-ish tendencies and ferocious urgency. | ||||||
| Overall, a very heavy, groove driven album, every song a pulsating and pounding aural pleasure. | ||||||
| Review by Iron Mathew Collins | ||||||
| Reviewed for Metal Gods TV | ||||||
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