Yeah, I’ve heard that before.  Like every time they release an album.  I love Dave and all, er, I mean hate him and all, but I don’t know why he has this goal of “Heaviest Album Yet.” What does that even MEAN?  I wrote a review of In Your Honour, the double album they released.  The first disc was supposedly their “Heaviest Album Yet” and the second disc was all acoustic (I’ll give them “Lightest Album Yet” for the second disc).  However, I felt in making their H.A.Y., it came across that they were just trying too hard.  In fact, I wrote then and I’ll write now that they have yet to match Weenie Beenie and Wattershed off their debut album for sheer intensity, raw power and I’ll even say, “heavy-ness.”

It’s an exaggeration that Dave makes this statement before EVERY album.  He didn’t before their last one.  Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace was a great album.  Their best in years really (although I love/hate them all).  And one of the main reasons it is so good is because it has a great balance between slow and fast, soft and hard, quite often within the same song. 

So Dave, you can go ahead and make your “Heaviest Album Yet”, I just ask that you please just make it “good.” 

Otherwise I’ll hate you more.