1. This is the End
2. Renounce
3. Own Worst Enemy

As metal goes, this is quite heavy. Heavy in the sense that it’s got a slowish pulse, repetitive and deep shit-kicking riffs and a minimal amount of vocal melody, with most of the vocals screamed somewhere between Slipknot and Devildriver.

So, this 3-tracker begins great with ultra-discord power riffs, whistling guitar harmonics and some of the most angst-riddden metal vocals I’ve heard for quite a while. From there on it’s downhill for a bit I’m afraid. The second track “Renounce”, has some good moments, but the melodic vocal sections are very ill-advised and produced too loud and the lead guitar lines are totally dull.

I’m hoping that track 3 “Own Worst Enemy” isn’t a Lit cover, and fortunately it isn’t, it’s more of a bouncy Pantera tune, with some good guitar lines, but not nearly enough variation to justify over four-and-a-half minutes of music, it just gets old pretty quick.

This kind of metal is good when it’s done right, and Extreme O.D. are on their way there, but lose their way a little with the second two tracks.

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