The albumвЂ™s opener, 'After The EndвЂќ, takes Spineshank immediately on the offensive. Four years since then, and nine years since their last album together, Spineshank are back with Anger Denial Acceptance, and IвЂ™m not sure that thereвЂ™s ever been a more appropriate album title for how I feel about a record. Then in 2008, Santos and company announced that they kissed and made up and started working on new material. At that point, fans basically read Spineshank their last rites and bid the once-promising act adieu. Unfortunately though, one year later, the wheels came off as Santos reported that he was leaving due to 'musical differencesвЂќ (subsequently forming Silent Civilian). These guys were cranking out one incredible album after another. As a fan, it honestly couldnвЂ™t get any better. While this record was more mainstream than THOC, it was a blistering forty minute thrill-ride that contained one infectious hook after another. In 2003, Spineshank returned with Self-Destructive Pattern. Combining fantastic songwriting alongside punishing (and at times danceable) rhythms with careening electronics and Johnny SantosвЂ™ beautifully brutal vocal barrage, THOC propelled Spineshank to the next level and began what looked to be an outstanding career for these Californians. Two years later, Spineshank dropped their landmark record The Height Of Callousness, and the band found their groove. It showcased a band with a ton of raw talent that desperately needed to be reigned and steered in the right direction. While I thought the album was good, it did have its glaring moments of weakness. In the fall of 1998, the Los Angeles natives dropped their highly touted debut Strictly Diesel. ThatвЂ™s kinda how I feel about SpineshankвЂ™s latest album Anger Denial Acceptance. Sure, the friend that youвЂ™ve waited so long to see again is sitting right in front of you, and youвЂ™re thankful for that, but most of the things that made them who they are have simply vanished. You meet, and as you start to reacquaint yourselves, you notice just how much has changed. Fast forward nine years and you get an email saying they will be in town and would love to catch up. Naturally, your life moved along as well, and while you have plenty of other friends that are great, youвЂ™ve always wondered what it would be like to have that one person back in your life again. ThereвЂ™s a time in most peopleвЂ™s lives that theyвЂ™ve had a person they knew for a period of time, grew to really befriend and suddenly that person, for one reason or another, moved on. While there are definitely some tracks (like the two previously mentioned ones) that I will add to my regular rotation, I donвЂ™t really feel the others have enough to keep me coming back for more.

That being said, for me there aren't enough of those types of songs on the disc and it sort of became a mixed bag. Soft moments aside, I feel that Spineshank are at their best on the harder edgier numbers, especially with the production being what it is. The album is not all balls out heavy though, 'I Want You To Know' contains tons of melody and has more of an alternative feel to it while 'Exit Wound' is a stripped down acoustic/piano type number. Songs like 'Murder-Suicide' and 'After The End' are the heaviest tracks on the disc and subsequently became my immediate favorites. It's much different than The Height Of Callousness and Self-Destructive Pattern for example, but in my book this is not necessarily a bad thing I feel that this kind of thrashy, aggressive metal really benefits from a certain amount of rawness and edginess. SpineshankвЂ™s latest release, Anger Denial Acceptance, is a bit of departure from their earlier releases and the first thing I noticed was how raw and under produced the album is overall. Alternative/nu-metal from USA, latest full-length album released in 2012.

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