Having subtracted bass from
Today Is the Day and added keyboards, noise rock auteur Steve Austin thereby altered his outfit stylistically, moving from the warmth and emotional appeal of
Willpower to an icily digital landscape of painful, high-frequency tones, screeched vocals, and even more painful guitar.
Today Is the Day is a brutal record, owing a bit of its industrial nature to acts like
Skinny Puppy and
Merzbow. However, this is hardly textbook industrial music. Still utilizing guitar and organic drums,
Today Is the Day is not driven by the keyboards so much as augmented sonically by them. The keys produce more of an atmospheric than a melodic effect, thereby leaving the essential constitution of
Today Is the Day intact and guitar-driven. [A companion DVD was released in 2007.] ~ Patrick Kennedy