A pretext to a tasty read…The pre-released download of the album was labeled in descending order. Hence, the first track became the last track and so on and so forth. Technical difficulties, yet took nothing from the album but a rickety organization…it’s still solid.
If such a thing can exist or otherwise be permitted to ooze from the far too many confound conceptions of metal, rock, and funk…that thing would be The Deliverance’s Revolation. Fifteen tracks of a mythical drunk beast rocking back and forth thru moments of radio friendly rock, synthesized delusions of some long forgotten electric head, metal conversion breakdowns that range from radically heavy to a floundering brutality of sorts, fanatical keyboard grooves, and thick brigades of American thrash. Revolation is an eclectic orgy of all that one could love and hate in a single melody testing every facet of rock along the way.
“Alas!
With Ruthless Hand
You Have Destroyed
This Fair Edifice
It Falls And Decays!” – The Birth Of Tragedy
Opening the album is You Think That You Know and Wicked Heart…both noble and trying creatures. The former bleeding with a sleek keyboard sycophant driven ride thru a soft rock melancholy, but liable to get the primal juices of some young thing gloriously flowing (undoubtedly sure to last the album’s length). Just as she feels the warm sweetness caressing her own young tan thighs, Wicked Heart rolls in with a flowing keyboard piece that drives the track thru indifferent hard rock breaks and the pitch of the album is let loose.
The range of The Deliverance is quickly shown with the introduction to Trench Warfare; a blasting lowdown new wave of slick thrash compounded with amazing drum fills and a RIGHTEOUS taste of breakdown at nearly two and a half minutes in. From David to Goliath and from the categorically weak to a smashing of the predictable into a thousand shards, Revolation has run thus far and only three tracks in.
“Everything was mixed together in a chaotic stew so long as reason, the sole principal of universal order, remained excluded from the creative act.” – The Birth Of Tragedy. The Wait Is Over rushes on thru cascades of hard rock riffage and progresses from a less-than bold thing into the replication of evolution (The creationists be brutally stoned, for I’ve seen the goddamn thing take the bold shape of life)…the epicness is held up with a strong undertone of the synthesized atmosphere as well as a helluva’ straight groove rocked with mean vocals. Rise Against…stabs of orchestral harmonics customized with static and what is revealed to be the undistinguishable band dynamic. A catalyst and a template.
Point Of No Return is a slam dancing bastard polarized with segments of heavy thrash and scream along licks of rock. A brutal head banging break rolls into a rad solo rocked over a defining synthesizer backup. Lightning bolts of quick leads and phenomenal drum work. Ending in something descriptive only as the Revolation’s first truly HEAVY AS FUCK jam piece.
Lay Me Down follows suit and contrives to be a quickly rocked piece that touches punk in its monstrous “Race To The Sun!” Crawls for a moment on Revolation’s piano keys in some expected fashion, but rises to end in a long motivational stretch. Undeniably smooth. The whole thing is regarded as a piece of Dionysian Art. Drunk on dark compounds of wine and in bed with the town’s sexiest women. Hollow continues on and is ironically just that in a dish of weak sauce…a tamed one.
Lacking in total solidity at the start, Every Breath is but a strong fucker regardless. An astrological lead that runs hard into a fun power slob solo groove…and like a goddamn bored out chopper slammed thru the swinging wooden doors of Vita’s Redneck Saloon, Enemies gains whole feats of solid ground and redemption. Incredibly RIGHTEOUS and GROOVY AS FUCK rollercoaster of a jam densely packed with vocal lines that defy any motionless entity to remain just that…a holistic push on the keyboard…a thrash metal ride on the back of a sexy, sleek booze fueled rocket.
A true blood testament to corruption forced by a need to collaborate too much of the heavy into a soft track. A wicked high flying solo enables the hopeful but nothing more in Dramatic.
With the opening of Devil’s Night comes a horde of good time dancing zombies…chanting and erupting from the earth in a lip snarling midnight scene of organization. It’s a new sound. The mood gets funky and heavy. Ghoulish screams and mad hackles read from a darkly humorous Night Of The Living Dead. This shit is relentlessly heavy with the simplicity of the marching cadence-fueled undead. A great solid track chalked full of momentum and an evil grace. Changes rolls into the downward slope of Revolation with shots of thrusting vocals and moments of a hopeful progression, but not much else.
Burn It All is a fountainhead of some motivational thing with incredibly large crushing organ blasts on the war torn march to greatness. An atmosphere is thrust onward and upward with a killer “Burn It All! You Better Make Something Better Of Yourself!” An epic piece held tightly together with a complemented musical achievement. Revolation’s last and final testament is a noble closing. Nothing more and nothing less, but the foundation was set long ago and the sound had been exhausted. Two CWG Guns.
out of 
A solid album in its entirety that will generally be accepted by the masses for an array of different reasons. Some vicarious, some genuine. I dig it. “Now come with me to the tragedy and let us sacrifice in the temple of both gods.” – The Birth Of Tragedy.
New found fans of The Deliverance are sure to dig on Demon Hunter, Lacuna Coil, Protest The Hero (Fortress!), Self Worth (Doom Basement Demos!), Nickelback, Dream Theater, Silent Civilian (New album Ghost Stories out now!), Machine Head, Tristiana, Iced Earth, Spineshank, Evanescence, Creed, Alexx Calise, and Kings Of Leon.
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