Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Storm the Gates of Hell
2. Lead Us Home
3. Sixteen - Demon Hunter, Bruce Fitzhugh
4. Fading Away
5. Carry Me Down
6. Thread of Light
7. I Am You
8. Incision
9. Thorns
10. Follow the Wolves
11. Fiction Kingdom
12. Wrath of God
13. No Reason to Exist [*]
14. Grand Finale [*]

Disc 2:

1. Fading Away [Multimedia Track]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110774 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-06
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Colour
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Customer Reviews

The Best Christian Metal since POD went big??
You'll get no fancy words from me here. There are better writers out there for that. What I will say is this: I love this album. Hardly a day has gone by since it arrived on my doormat that I haven't listened to and been inspired by it.

The heavier tracks are just heavy enough with great hooks and plenty to get you bouncing round the room and the way they slip from mad to mellow mid-song is perfect.

Yes, the lyrics are more overtly Christain than ever but that's no bad thing. The Christian desire for justice in a broken world inspires a righteous anger which is perfect for the genre and Demon Hunter display it in abundance here.

When they tone it down, it works just as well. The lament of "Carry Me Down" is a look into the future to the day of the writer's death and subsequent funeral, imploring his loved ones to be at peace on that final day. Awesome stuff!

Not a Christian? So what! Listen to this stuff. Demon Hunter aren't there to hit you with a Bible but with the reality of what life is like as a Christian in today's society.

Musically Storm the Gates of Hell is sound as a pound and emotionally it's like a sledgehammer.

If you want Christian Metal heavier than this, perhaps Extol will be more your thing. But for me, this is the best I've heard since POD stormed into the mainstream and that was a long time ago.

Demon Hunter
Looking at Demon Hunter's biography, with its boasting of mainstream acclaim (AOL Music, MTV) it wouldn't take much to guess what kind of release this was going to be. Putting the topic of this being a Christian band (and proud of it, as the promo pictures suggest) aside, this is a pretty ordinary run-of-the-mill metal affair.

It's beautifully produced, has riffs in abundance and has all the melodic hooks to ensure that the more mainstream-inclined is satisfied. Sadly, that latter remark is where the main problem with this record lies. To put it bluntly, Demon Hunter are a lot more interesting when they are at their heaviest. The melodic choruses are often bland and repetitive, slowing down the intensity of some otherwise fairly brutal metallic onslaughts. The instrumentation on a whole, it must be said, is solid as hell. It may have been done a trillion times before but Demon Hunter mix circle-pit inducing Hardcore and hair-swinging Metal rather well, taking obvious influences by bands such as Pantera and Hatebreed.

It must be noted that this band is extremely Christian influenced. There will always be a certain amount of trepidation towards a Christian release if you are a non-believer, as no one that way inclined would particularly want to be screamed at for 40-odd minutes about how we should have God in our lives. The album sleeve details what each song is about, and every song is, predictably, written about being a Christian.
This instantly (lyrically, anyway) alienates a large selection of their listeners, but if you can look past this, this is a pretty solid release that doesn't exactly re-define heavy music but instead sits in there quite nicely.