The album is TEN years old this month!! In Eleven Days.
• What were your initial thoughts on the album ?
• How do you like the album now ?
I might give it a spin in full later. But I remember liking it - even if the drums were a bit quiet. Sounded like classic DT to me and I think I preferred it to the previous two albums.
I LOVE This Is The Life.
Wow that is mindblowing, ten years just go by in the blink of an eye.
I actually won my copy for free off a metal radio station just before it was publicly released (like two weeks or something)
At first I loved it, then I hated it, then it aged and I think it's their best album since SDOIT (speaking relatively of their discography in 2011, not 2021). It holds up really well even if it it them being nostalgic over I&W in some aspects.
There are "filler" IMHO but most of the album is really strong. Mangini gets the role of a drum machine (instead of the creative freedom he has now) and the mix isn't perfect, but those aside it's better than some of their flops prior to 2011.