Apocalyptica have pulled out a seemingly impressive track on their return with Corey Taylor in the temporary vocal helm.
It’s an impassioned display as always from Corey, whose voice roars and rumbles like clockwork throughout the song, showing how he has managed to create a balance between his all out brutality with Slipknot, and his current focus in Stone Sour.
The part that the actual members of Apocalyptica play can’t be overlooked here either. It would be criminal to do so. As the backbone of three cellists and a drummer provide the racket you can hear, it’s an almighty wall of sound – You’d also be forgiven for thinking there were layers of guitars on show too.
Playing the role of an abused victim facing the priest who had caused him harm as a child, Corey piles in more power in each piece of intonation than the crudest of machines that ever had an axe on Robot Wars. It’s this that allows the song to come alive, and brings the scars and torment of Corey’s character to the eye-opening fore.
The proof of the pudding is in the spine-tingling verse of: “Your Hippocratic messiah and child abusive turned satanic” that when all said and done, is a sinister, crippling, brooding line. As Corey finishes on the lines of “I’m not Jesus/I will not forgive”, you can easily sympathise.