The follow-up to 2009's polarizing
Deathless,
Intolerance,
Throwdown's seventh studio album (and first in nearly five years), finds the Southern California-based rockers ditching the groove-metal angle of their last outing, which invoked names like
Godsmack and
Mudvayne, in favor of a more old-school approach that finds common ground between their hardcore roots and the
Pantera-inspired sonic attack of 2007's
Venom & Tears. Recorded at Hurley Recordings in Costa Mesa, California with producer Davey Warsop,
Intolerance features 11 new tracks, including the single "Fight or Die." ~ James Christopher Monger