Today Is The Day - Willpower

You Don't Love Me And I Don't Care

#26) Today Is The Day - Willpower (1994)

 1. Willpower
 2. My First Knife
 3. Nothing To Lose
 4. Golden Calf
 5. Side Winder
 6. Many Happy Returns
 7. Simple Touch
 8. Promised Land
 9. Amazing Grace
 10. Execution Style

this is TITD's 2nd full length. originally released in '94, this is the 2005 remaster and once again  Steve Austin handled the remastering duties. unfortunately, unlike the remaster of  Temple of the Morning Star, this re-issue doesn't include any liner notes letting you into Austin's world at the time.
musically this is very different than the later albums. this album has a lot more clean-ish singing parts and it's overall much more of a noise rock album. the experimentation and metal influences are there, they just haven't been brought to the forefront yet. i actually listened to the first track about 3 times because it was just so different from what i was used to. tracks 9 and 10 are bonus tracks. 9 is a weird little guitar version of Amazing Grace while track 10 is a "normal" TITD track. i'm not sure if these tracks are from this recording session or were tracks from a split or comp or something as there's no info in the cd booklet and i couldn't find anything on the webz (i didn't try incredibly hard but i did try).
though i prefer the later metal-er (i'm sure that's a word) stuff i really enjoyed this album. if i would've heard this back in '94 it probably would've blown my tiny mind, in 2012 it's still a rad listen.