★★★★★
Sound: I bought this album pretty soon after it's release, mostly due to the airplay of 'just so you know' on Kerrang! radio. This band incorporate heavy guitar riffs, and morbid lyrics like most metal bands. They hit you hard, and keep on coming. It's an exhausting, exhilirating experience. It certainly grabs you by the balls. // 9 Lyrics and Singing: The lyrics are stereotypical of the genre. However, the singer adds something with his vocals...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Following up a massively successful debut album is never an easy task. Having to deal with rehab, record labels and line up changes makes the task harder. But metal eats despair for breakfast with chaos for a chaser and American Head Charge is definitely back. 2001's 'The War of Art' shifted 40,000 copies and put American Head Charge up there with the big boys of the genre; Slipknot, Mushroomhead, Faith No More and Mudvayne...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-23
★★★★★
There are few things in life that I hate, but this album manages to gather a few of them together under one banner. Vocalist Martin Cock uses the words "me" or "I" in the first verse of all but three songs here, fully embodying the kind of self-absorbed, egotistical whining you'd expect from a band whose reputation for beating up fans, smashing guitars and rehabbing has largely overshadowed their musical contributions to date...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Sound: Minneapolis-based industrial/nu metal band American Head Charge has been always famous for uproars and 'out of control' behavaiour of the band members, starting from 2001 Ozzfest's shotguns on stage, bloody brawls and ending with smashing expensive equipment they couldn't afford to. Savage raids on America's stages, leaving ruin and devastation behind, were not the main aim. "It wasn't enough to just play our music," Banks easly admits. "Chalk it up to a desperate bid for attention...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
If Ted Bundy were still alive and on the rampage, this is the music he'd have on his answering machine. Minneapolis-based smash metal septet American Head Charge -- fresh from wreaking havoc on Ozzfest 2001 -- come bangin' on your brain with their debut album The War of Art. Produced by Rick Rubin in a rundown mansion the band swears is haunted, this album is the latest volley in the ongoing metal-band game of "up the ante...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Brutal, loud, and insanely intense, the Minneapolis-based American Head Charge is so extremely over the top that at first the listener might not notice that the band is also one of the most intelligent, interesting, and compelling metal bands to surface. Singer Martin Cock is just one of the reasons why their major-label debut, The War of Art, is a brilliant album...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28