Coilback - Metal from Texas

Coilback
Love Is Dead
CD

By: T.J.

This is what I'm talking about! Metal that will kick your ass and keep kicking it until you lay lifeless! Picking up from their self titled 5 song EP, "Love Is Dead" contains all of those 5 tracks with the exception of "Won't Follow", but that's okay because there's more than enough tracks to make up for it- 12 regular tracks and one bonus track ("Don't Stay") on this album, with each being better than the last.
"Unbroken" is a pretty hard hitting track that opens up "Love Is Dead". With Kill 'em All era James Hetfield vocals, Lew Morris' voice is almost as heavy as his guitar riffs. In the song "Love Is Dead" I keep waiting for Lew to yell "C'mon! Jump in the Fire!" The track itself is one the heaviest and the best. The guys play very together and it shows in this track. "Take it From Me" sounds to me like a song written to someone who has betrayed a one time friend and the now ex friend is standing up for themselves and is telling the betrayer "look at me now mother fucker!" My absolute favorite track is "Green House". Now it's a bit different then the rest of the tracks. It's not one of those "in your face" tracks, but it's more like a song that opens itself up to you. The music and vocals are a perfect combination.

The vocal breakdowns and music in "Let Me Go" are cool. I like how the band pulled it off. "Your Misery" is a short and sweet tune that has some Megadeth undertones to it, so of course it's a bad ass track. "Twisted Vision" kind of mixes south-western/Texas rock with the band's unique metal sound. The bonus track "Don't Stay" is one of the album's better tracks. If you come into the middle of the song and have no idea who is playing, you could easily mistake the song from something off the second Danzig album. It's an amazing song. I'm very happy they decided to include it to complete the first full length album from Coilback.