I don't know if I would consider this hardcore per se. Sixfeetdeep has more of a heavy groove to them than the usual run of the mill hardcore out there today. The hardcore sensibilities are there, especially in the lyrics and vocal delivery. Let's just say Struggle is really, really heavy in the Godsmack and Pantera region.
All attempts at pigeonholing aside, let me explain why Struggle spends a good amount of time in my CD player. Sixfeetdeep genuinely bleeds emotional angst, yet still clings for dear life to the Savior. It's anger without being bitter. Their songs connect with me on a very deep and personal level. If there was any soundtrack to my life, Struggle would be it. In fact, the song "Struggle" says it best: "I think about how HE suffered and how HIS sweat was like drops of blood / Then I see how quickly I'm broken and how fast I lose my faith in the flood / Of dissipation, temptation, frustration I fall to my knees / This pitiful celebration of self, it's got to cease." Bingo. Me right there. "Angry Son", "Front", "Regret", "Condemnation", "Homeless", "Release"...all these are pretty much personal testimonials to my gelatinous being. There's also a hidden track that, I think, is entitled "110 Percent".
Very good CD. If you can find it, buy it, and partake. . .
8.5/10
Other coverage for this album
Dead Zine 2002Reviewed by D_ListerI denied hardcore for a long long time. I refused to listen to it basing my thoughts erroneously on the single fact that if it came from punk it's going to sound like punk. Six Feet Deep showed me that hardcore could be so much more. It was this album Struggle that brought me some of my best hardcore music ever. From the moment this CD takes off with the song 'Angry Son' (for me this song is my…Salt #24Reviewed by RoadrunnerI guess the term hardcore fits here. It reminds me a bit of Entombed occasionally but without the fury or creativity. Myk Porter adequately uses his throat to deliver a message powerfully. In "Angry Son" he seeks deliverance from the anger brought on from many years of being stomped into the ground face down. People wonder how Christians can mix with hardcore. S.F.D. calls for people to get real…Heaven's Metal #49Reviewed by Doug Van PeltThese Cleveland punks go after it for 50-plus minutes through a muddy mix for half the album, which never peaks beyond the wide mid-range plodding out of the speakers. Vocally, the deathly muffled sound is chosen over rawness. Some of these tunes, though, have grooves too cool to ignore, like the deep dirty riffs in the title track and "Nemesis," where the sonics start to show a little…Similar sounding releases
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