Since people at MetalSucks like being exclusive with their exclusive videos I’ll just make use of YouTube. (Click here to watch this video on MetalSucks.) ‘Dead To Rights’ comes off the upcoming DEVILDRIVER album entitled ‘Beast’, set for February 22nd, 2011 release via Roadrunner Records. ‘Beast’ was recorded at Sonic Ranch studios with producer Mark Lewis and mixed by Andy Sneap. Click here (Revolver Magazine) to listen to new DD song, ‘Bring The Fight (To The Floor)’, and listen to ‘Coldblooded’ at this location (Roadrunner UK). Special edition of the album will feature 14 new tracks (two more than the standard CD) along with a bonus DVD containing the band's documentary shot by filmmaker Daniel J. Burke and official music videos spanning DEVILDRIVER's career thus far.
“It’s another level,” frontman Dez Fafara said of his band's fifth and latest offering, insisting that the band isn’t tethered to any style, genre or self-imposed limitations: “We didn’t simply re-issue a sound we found that worked, which most bands will do especially on their fifth, sixth or seventh record. They’ll lay on their laurels and stick to what they’ve done. We’re not looking at what anyone around us is doing. Since we’re not paying attention to any of that, we were able to find unique music within ourselves. We tried to break some boundaries and stretch the genre open. We keep redefining ourselves.”
Lyrics-wise: “It’s a sincere, pissed-off street record,” revealed the singer. “It’s got straight-to-your-heart lyrics. I jumped outside of myself on ‘Pray For Villains’ and wrote stories. On this one, I came back to who I was. It was an intense time, and this captures that intensity. It’s the guy who walks through shit the best that eventually starts hovering over the top and he wins. Some people will lock themselves in a dark room and wallow because the world is crumbling. I do the opposite. I start sharpening my teeth and my nails. I start looking with an electric fucking glance and moving through life. That’s what this album is about - the daily fight that is life.”
Those who know me also know I love this American death & groove metal band from Santa Barbara, California. DEVILDRIVER formed in 2002 when ex-COAL CHAMBER vocalist Dez Fafara hooked up with guitarists Evans Pitts and Jeffery Kendrick, bassist Jon Miller and drummer John Boecklin. The band released their self-titled debut album through Roadrunner Records in 2003 to mixed and even negative response by music critics. Guitarist Mike Spreitzer replaced Evan Pitts on DEVILDRIVER's second effort, ‘The Fury Of Our Maker's Hand’, which fared much better with the listening public and music critics alike than its predecessor (the album has entered the American Billboard 200 chart at number 117) and music critics alike. The band toured extensively in support of the album. In 2006 ‘The Fury Of Our Maker's Hand’ was re-released to include three new studio tracks and three live recordings. Third album, ‘The Last Kind Words’, followed in 2007: “DEVILDRIVER is a 100 percent metallic beast that has more in common with thrash/extreme metal than all those unbearable “eyeliner metal bands”. There’s not anything all that much different going on here when compared to all the other acts from the current metal crop. Nothing fancy - just an extreme metal roar that hits you right between the eyes, which may have been DEVILDRIVER's goal all along,” AllMusic's Greg Prato finally admitted. The album debuted at number 48 on Billboard 200. ‘Pray For Villains’ charted even higher - it peaked at number 35 on Billboard 200, with first week sales of 14,600 copies sold: “The band hasn’t thrown the rage to the wayside on ‘Villains’ nor have they lost a step. It’s plain and simple metal; there’s no trace of trends, such as quiet-loud dynamics or a stringing together of parts. The metal wheel – or steel - isn’t being reinvented here, but that’s not really DEVILDRIVER's intention, either. Quality metal that impacts like a billion left hooks to the jaw is!” commented Amy Sciarretto for Ultimate Guitar.
DEVILDRIVER: You Make Me Sick – courtesy of Roadrunner Records
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