Band: Job For A Cowboy
Album title: Ruination
Label: Metal Blade Records
Distributor: Rough Trade Benelux.
Release date: CD
Release: 03/07/2009

American death metal band Job For A Cowboy first saw light in 2003. The band was founded by vocalist Jonny Davy in a town called Glendale, Arizona. In 2005, the band released their first EP called “Doom”. Not long after that, the band got signed by metal blade records and in 2007, the band released their debut album/masterpiece Genesis witch seld 13,000 copies in its first week.

And now the year 2009 brings forth their new album called Ruination. A highly anticipated album by fans and music critics. Will the band fail or prove that they are the right cowboys for the job? Lets find out.
The album starts of brutal with a take no prisoners attitude and can maintain until the second to last song. Shredding guitars, double bass pedals going in overdrive and vocals like somebody is throwing up. Everything you need for a good death metal band. But for me the best part of the album was the last song. Not that I wanted it to end, but because this one was different that the other songs. Where there was a take no prisoners attitude, there now came a more refreshing/surprising doom atmosphere that really gives the album a bigger value. The downside to this one is like all death metal bands the vocals. Respect for the people who can scream/grunge like that, but I personally prefer vocals I can understand without reading the lyrics on the Internet or in the cd info.

85/100

Jeroen.