White Wizzard – The Devil’s Cut
Release Date: June 3rd, 2013
1 out of 5 Horns
White Wizzard’s latest album The Devil’s Cut is 9 songs of face melting, epic, top shelf metal that will without a doubt blow your mind. The Devil’s Cut is without a doubt the best metal release of 2013. White Wizzard have delivered their greatest work to date with The Devil’s Cut. These are all reviews that White WIzzard would love to hear. Well, they won’t be hearing it from The Great Southern Brainfart.
First off, let’s just address this album art. It looks like a Care Bear ate way too many Skittles and then shit them on a canvas. I mean, who thought this album art was amazing? Oh, Jon Leon. That’s right. Sorry. Now let’s address the album itself. As a diehard fan of any band, nothing pains me more than having to listen to a really crappy album and with The Devil’s Cut, White Wizzard has hit proverbial shit wall. It’s official. Jon Leon is fresh out of ideas and this album proves it. What I heard instead was an album that sounds completely hacked together with juvenile lyrics and a serious digression in growth. At times, the songs are so damn silly that I feel like I’m being made fun of as if this were a comical kind of band put together to create a caricature based on every cliché in the heavy metal handbook. It almost feels like that instead of progressing forward and growing, White Wizzard just continues to work backwards. The Devil’s Cut sounds like it very well could have been White Wizzards FIRST album.
The Devil’s Cut is an album that I would expect from a band who is just testing the waters for the first time and who are new to the game. For a band putting out their fourth release it’s kind of staggering to see such an absolute lack of lyrical and musical growth. Even at nine songs the album just seemed to drag and it was all I could do to make it through the album. Aside from the song “Torpedo of Truth” which even that is just “OK” by White Wizzard standards, there is not one single song that I could make it through without my gag reflex kicking in. Not even the stellar lead guitar playing of guitarists Jake Dreyer and Will Wallner is enough to save this massive platter of crap. It almost makes me sad for them to see such talent being burned away on such mediocrity. You know, it’s sort of like watching an excelled student in a remedial class with a bunch of dimwits. It truly blows my mind that this is the same band/guy that put out one of my all-time favorite metal albums, Over the Top.
Call me a hater, call me whatever the fuck you want but I’ve been a White Wizzard fan since the beginning. I have given them the benefit of the doubt countless times and even when I had my words with Jon Leon and whoever else in the band, I have stood by my support of this band and hoped that with each passing album I would be proven wrong. The Devil’s Cut is without a doubt the last straw for me as a fan of White Wizzard. Looking back, at least I have High Speed GTO, Over The Top, and ½ of Flying Tigers to stand with. As far as The Devil’s Cut, White Wizzard will have to stand alone as this is not an album that I can or will get behind or beside of.
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