This Godless Endeavor by Nevermore
February 21, 2007 by Jo Minor
This Godless Endeavor marked progressive thrash metallers Nevermore’s seventh studio album, and marks the band’s finest offering in their ten year career. Released by Century Media Records in 2005 and produced by the legendary Andy Sneap, This Godless Endeavor was easily the album of the year and displayed the band at the very peak of their creativity and brilliance.
Eleven tracks make it into This Godless Endeavor, which is a concept album that deals with theological, social and political issues typical of Nevermore, and brings the listener deep into the twisted and fragile world of decay, corruption and manipulation brought on by incapable leaders and the irresponsible media.
The album starts off with Born, a brilliant track that deals with the consequences of our birth and existence in this world. With clever, thought provoking lyrics weaved into the structure of the song, Born is an accurate representation of what the album has to offer.
The next track in the album, Final Product, also comes with a brilliant music video. Final Product deals with the manipulation and biasness of the media, and the harmful effects it unleashes upon the fertile minds of man. The song starts off with vocalist Warrel Dane barking out the words “The media loves their latest tragic suicide, they exploit it, then package it, and profit from the people who die”. The magic that lies within this track aren’t the exceptional lyrics, however, it lies within the brilliant guitar solos of guitar maestros Jeff Loomies and Steve Smyth - and the best of the three or so guitar solos in this song is the out of this world tapping solo by Jeff Loomis just before the 2:35 mark of the song. Words can’t even begin to describe this piece of guitar wizardry.
The album is then transformed into a roller coaster ride of various sounds and musical landscapes, until you arrive at the title track which sits majestically at the very end of the album.
The title track is over ten minutes long, and is arguably the best song the band has ever come up with - and judging by Nevermore’s brilliant songwriting prowess, this track will probably go down in the history books of heavy metal as one of the best title tracks for any metal album. This Godless Endeavor (the title track, that is) starts off with a tragic acoustic-rock influenced introduction, with Warrel Dane’s emotional vocal anguish painting a very bleak and gloomy picture indeed.
Majestic and unparalleled This Godless Endeavor is one of the finest metal albums to ever see the light of day.
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