Hope this album Has some of the melodies in pray for villans, but the aggression of Fury of Our Makers hand,Can't Wait!<3

The -dead to rights- track sounds sick as...hope its not the best track theyve got though!

Just finished listening to this, and was thoroughly impressed, and pleasantly surprised! xD It's a tightly wound, whirling dervish of an album with sonically devestating songs (overall) and stellar musicianship. Definitely very far removed from what Dez used to do in his days with Coal Chamber. lol

Written by Angelic Storm on 03.02.2011 at 18:38

Definitely very far removed from what Dez used to do in his days with Coal Chamber. lol

They pretty much have been since 2005 or 2007 though...

Written by Baz Anderson on 03.02.2011 at 18:52
They pretty much have been since 2005 or 2007 though...

True, but "Beast" is a bit more extreme overall than any of their previous albums. More death metal in tone definitely. There is still melody, but it's used much more sparingly, and the riffing is very upfront and in your face. Its also very intricate at times. Ive always liked Devildriver, though they've definitely gone up a gear or two with this one! xD

This album is infinitely better than Pray For Villains.
it leaked.

I am currently listening to it and am impressed. Good album this one...

It's a good album, but nothing more...in my opinion. I was hoping to use words like "great" or "awesome" but unfortunately I can't. I'm sure they will draw big crowds to their shows, and they'll surely give the paying kids their moneys worth. 7/10 is my grade.

It's heavy and agressive, but in the end, nothing really stands out.

This is an amazing album. Devildriver have definitely stepped up their game since 'Pray for Villains'. All tracks are good to amazing. Stand out tracks include Blur, Shitlist, Hardened and The Blame Game

Opened up to me a bit more upon second listen. Definitely better than whatever they did in 2009

EDIT: actually, I'm finding it really good now XD

This is just...ugh. I tried, but it really didn't leave any mark on me whatsoever. Better than Pray for Villains though.

Was this band really metal? I wonder..
wish i could rate this but i dont want to waste my money lol

Written by Javier__00 on 05.03.2011 at 07:04

Was this band really metal? I wonder..
wish i could rate this but i dont want to waste my money lol

I'd say they're a mix of groove/thrash and metalcore - definitely metal though. Just, in my opinion, not good this time around.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 05.03.2011 at 02:04

This is just...ugh. I tried, but it really didn't leave any mark on me whatsoever. Better than Pray for Villains though.

I felt the same on my first go, but by the third time I think it's really good not that anyone is forcing you to like it anyway!

Flashes of brilliant but the material is weak, jaded and sometimes annoying

I have to say this is one of those surprisingly good albums...sort of. The first half of the album just feels uturly directionless and seems to be to me at least that they are trying to portray some kind of chaos by throwing in these almost advantegardesque guitar leads which just seem very unconnected with anything else. This wouldn't be so bad if they were trying to consistently do this, but sinstead seem confused whether they want to be experimental, heavy, loud, or catchy and it just comes off as a big mess. Although "Shitlist" does show what the second half of the album is going to be like it isn't really the greatest song.
However just when the album seems to be outliving its welcome "Black Soul Choir" pops up. Surpsingly this is a cover but if I was given a side by side listen to this and the orignal without knowing one is a cover, I just wouldn't be able to tell the difference. The rest of the album from this point is actually pretty good and surprisingly epic for Devildriver at times. The ambitious guitar leads from before actually work in these songs, although they still are not perfect.
It seems Dez has returned to his formula of Devildriver's debut and seems to just repeating the same phrase over and over like he is Max Calvera. Surprisingly it doesn't really ruin any of the songs (especially the better ones) but it is pretty notable and kind of detracts from the album in an after-thought kind of way.
However this albums ambition (as Devildriver seems to consistently show in each album) seems to be a manifestation of Dez's desire to break his music away from popular, if not critically lauded genres and be seen as something serious.

Wow, this is worse than I expected. It's so formulaic and generic

In the beginning i didn't like it at all but some day i felt that i need to lsn to some anger ,noise & Groove and i find this album on my way and after that day i liked this album
and btw they have a lot of Groove elements in their songs ..
Is alternative Melodic Death = Groove ?!!!!

Written by Swamphell on 18.09.2011 at 20:50
Is alternative Melodic Death = Groove ?!!!!

Late response, but no. Groove metal is a thrash sub-genre, which places emphasis on - you guessed it - groove. It's all about the riffs.

Pantera's "Walk" and Lamb of God's "Hourglass" are good examples of groove metal.