Soilent Green-Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction
Metal Blade
April 15, 2008

Soilent Green are the definition of a hard working, blue collar metal band. There's something about their music that has working middle class written all over it. They grind out their blend of all things metal like a trucker putting in a twelve hour day to feed his family or a welder working his ass off for far too little income.

Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction, with its grind to rock drumming with tight snare drum fills placed in all the right spots and guitar lines that seem to make use of every fret and string at least once per song, is the end product of a hard working band that has had much to overcome throughout their history. They are at their best when playing a super heavy style of southern fried stomp metal, but know how and when to pull out the punk, hardcore and/or death metal. Everything about this band screams New Orleans metal, a reason why the banjo opening to "In the Same Breath" sounds perfectly fitting.

This is an album for people who work too hard for little recognition and even tinier pay. The anger on here is undaunting; a true product of the working middle class.

Written by: RF
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