Drift - The best heavy metal album ever

Review Score: (10/10)
Drift, quite simply, defines heavy metal. Every track on this album is a piece of art. This is the best heavy metal album ever - and if you are a fan of the excellent Momentum by Enertia, you'll know what you are getting - straight up vanilla metal delivered with precision and power.

Flotsam and Jetsam's 5th album, this is also far and away their best release. Eric AKs vocals throughout must surely grant him "The voice of metal". The song writing is excellent, and as you'd expect from Neil Kernon, production is awesome. The album builds on the sound that was started with Quatro - but goes much further than Quatro did in defining everything that is great about heavy metal.

Lyrics throughout are striking - the whole album screams defiance in the face of adversity. And the clever and catching riffs keep everything moving at an energetic pace. There's also an interesting blend of sounds - with the mystic eastern flavour of the intro to Empty Air, through the melodic power of Missing, to the thundering Smoked Out.

Flotsam and Jetsam have produced a number of great albums, and two complete classics (Drift and their awesome debut Doomsday for the Deceiver - now nearly 20 years old and still sounding as fresh as ever). If you are into metal, you owe it to yourself to buy Drift.

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