Artist: ARMORED SAINT
Album: WIN HANDS DOWN VINYL (2LP BLACK)

Release date: 2015
Media type: LP

Armored Saint are a colossus, and Win Hands Down will long be remembered as one of the seven wonders of modern metal. The album - the band's seventh studio offering in a career spanning more than three decades - is all things Armored, a vintage crush of classic power propelled by a cathartic blast of life in the year 2015. This is Armored Saint, and this is nothing short of magnificent.

The fist-pumping adrenaline rush starts with the title track and escalates from there, "Win Hands Down" delivering an album-opening rally cry that re-introduces the players after their five year sojourn since the release of La Raza in 2010. As always, they are the same Saints we've grown to know and love - frontman John Bush and bassist Joey Vera, guitarist Phil Sandoval and his brother, drummer Gonzo Sandoval, and guitarist Jeff Duncan - five masters of metal that combine to forge one of the genre's most criminally-unsung forces.

A1     Win Hands Down    
A2     Mess    
A3     An Exercise In Debauchery    

B1     Muscle Memory    
B2     That Was Then, Way Bach When    

C1     With A Full Head Of Steam    
C2     In An Instant    

D1     Dive    
D2     Up Yours    
D3     Dive [Deep Remix] - Bonus track