For The Lions

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Total Tracks: 18   Total Length: 47:50

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Ghost of War

Aquarius-Rabbit

Their song Ghost of War, soulds like Slayer's version. I whitch I like!!

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Whoa!

hanz_ofbyotch

Hatebreed was always off my radar cuz I never heard them; my guitar player played me this album on the way to practice and in like 2 minutes I was wide awake! I came home and got it immediately! Awesome album, they do supreme justice to all the songs. One of the best albums of the year for sure!

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Wow

Skinnyboy

Wow - because it's funny to hear Jamey try to cover Hetfield on "Escape", he ends up sounding more like Burton from Fear Factory... Also, wow -- weird to see Hatebreed back from the major label world and back on eMusic.

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The terms metalcore, hardcore, punk metal, and death metal have all been applied at one time or another to New Haven, CT-based Hatebreed, but it was a shared love of all things punk rock that served as the impetus for the band’s inception in the early ’90s. That’s not to say that the 18 covers that make up For the Lions are tapped squarely from the vein of punk history, but at least they finally got around to covering the classic Misfits song from which they derived their name. Like an LP version of Metallica’s 1987 $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited, For the Lions is a love letter to the bands and songs that inspired the group, which means that all of the previously mentioned genres are more or less represented. The band sounds the most engaged on the early hardcore numbers like “Suicidal Maniac” (Suicidal Tendencies), “Thirsty and Miserable” (Black Flag), and “It’s the Limit” (Cro-Mags), while nods to the metal gods such as “Ghosts of War” (Slayer) and “Escape” (Metallica) are blistering and volatile enough to warrant inclusion, but feel a little rote. – James Christopher Monger

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