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Philip Anselmo’s mangled, throaty vocals are powered by an ungodly vengeance, promoting all sorts of deviancy. He proudly admits to profiting from drugs on “Strength Beyond Strength” (“I’m helping to legalize dope on your pristine streets and I’m making a fortune”). Several tracks consider the merits of suicide (“Becoming,” “Shedding Skin,” “Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills,” “Slaughtered”). On “25 Years,” he hatefully threatens his father with violence (“we’re f—ing you back”). The f-word peppers this entire album, and is used in shocking descriptions of sexual perversion. Other lyrics promoting dangerous behavior include, “I drink all day, I smoke all day . . . a hangover is inspiration” (“Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks”).
Dark, obscene and obsessed with the occult. Far Beyond Driven should be driven far beyond civilization as we know it-and trashed.
