1) Kill Tomorrow (9/10) Heavy riff and lots of rappish loud stuff by J Mann over double bass drums. Keyboard enhanced chorus with an epic feel. Great opener, kind of gets repetitive by the end.

2) Sun Doesn't Rise (10/10) Perfect single, and a hard rocking song. The chorus is amazing and I love J Mann's section. Let this or "Solitaire/Unraveling" be your introduction to my Mushroomhead if you've never heard them. The equivalent of S/U on this album.

3) Mother Machine Gun (9/10) Nothing's vocals sound too much like Sun Doesnt Rise, but other than that its great.

4) Nowhere to go (11/10) One of the best on here, a truly mellow song (like "Indifferent" on the s/t) and a contemplation of existence. Guitars, Nothing and keyboards get equal shares in the melody.

5) Becoming Cold (216) (11/10) When I bought to the album, I skipped to a random track and this was it. Heavy riffage with some fast singing over it. Kind of creepy like their early stuff, but still XIII style. The end is the best part.

6) One More Day (11/10) The best track on the album (in my opinion), but I probably think so only cuz "The Wrist" is my fav MH track ever and this is a piano driven track like that and "These Filthy Hands".

7) The Dream Is Over (10/10) HEAVY. How could it not be, with the awesome Jens Kidman of Meshuggah, J Mann, and NO Jeffery Nothing? Hardcore metal fans will love this. The lyrics are great too. "Daylight breaks on a broken home..."

8) The War Inside (11/10) Seems purposely frantic and the drum part is overdone, I think intentionally. Shortest on the album, another great rocking song.

9) Almost Gone (11/10) MH does Nickelback! Well, kind of. The riff could easily be a Nickelback riff, and its an older style of rock. The soft, jazzy ending is awesome.

10) Eternal (11/10) Sweeeeet! Heavy, rhythmic vocals by J Mann over nice guitar rhythms. Think "Xeroxed" with triplets on guitar and a melodic chorus.

11) Our Own Way (9/10) A nice mellower track that builds up. I like it.

12) Destroy the World Around Me (12/10) An 8 minute masterpiece, and I think it's actually the best on here, though I enjoy "One More Day" and a couple of others more. Don't know, they might be talking about stereotyping, and that could be Martin Luther King's voice in the background... not sure.

13) Thirteen (9/10) Don't like the actually song 13 that much, but the Seal cover ("Crazy") after it rocks.

Overall, a great buy and one of the best this year. Better than Korn's new one, which either shows that they're losing their touch, or these guys are really good. Probably both. Buy this now.

Better than XX - Xii is a crushing metal release
Absolutely fantastic metal album. Better than XX, pretty much better than anyother rock/industrial cd i've heard in a while. if you liked XX you will dig this release, if you like any kind of rock music at all, this will, at the very least, be an intersting listen.
My favorite tracks off the album were
-Sun Doesn't Rise
-Mother Machine Gun
-One More Day
-Nowhere to Go
The piano sampling on Mother machine gun adds an eerie glow to the song that you can't get out of your head.
One more day is a huge rock ballad type song, mostly singing. Too much fun to sing along with :) The female background singers contrast well with the dark melody
A bit slower song with a large power chord chours. Once again mostly singing, with dark, low, speech and screaming below the lead.
Over all Mushroomhead takes much more advantage of their two lead singers on this album than other previous releases. Almost every song has the dark/light vocals along with crushing riffs, spot-on drumming, great piano/synth work and perfect sampling. Easily one of the most creative works in rock this year (i can only hope for the new slipknot release).

Very Good CD From A Very Good Band
This a real good cd, though j.mann's voice is kinda lame sometimes. Becoming Cold is a very catchy song, my personal favorite on XIII. Buy this cd but I prefer Slipknot over Mushroomhead. Sorry Mushroomhead fans, but Slipknot is more appealing to more people and their music is a lot harder than Mushroomhead. You guys can think you're better cause your band is in more of the underground scene, but I'm goin with the more talented nu-metal masked band.

GREAT CD!!!!!!!!
I bought their first CD XX and i was BLOWN AWAY by the Metal sounds
that the band produced. ALL the guitar and drums were done brillantly. XIII is also an AWESOME CD as well i bought it because i LOVED the first one so i picked this one up. I was quite suprised by the Metal beats and the lyrics as well it's not as good as their XX album but a GREAT listen nonetheless. Some of their songs are not as hard as they are on XX but nevertheless XII is still a DAMN good CD with GREAT lyrics and gutiar and drums in the songs. I am also a HUGE Slipknot fan as well even though Mushroomhead has been around longer than Slipknot and Slipknot probably learned a few things from Mushroomhead I DON'T CARE!!!!!!! Mushroomhead is a GREAT Metal band to listen too if your a Metalhead like I am so go and pick up this CD via amazon.com or you local record store for a GREAT Metal experience. so to ALL you Metalheads out there in the world ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!!!

Hair tossing, brain shaking rock to satisfy your metal soul
Mushroomhead truly reigns from the topmost tier of rock and metal, taking an art that can quickly become repetitive and turning it into a mind-boggling sensation of multiple sounds blending into one astounding taste of ear candy.

The combination of vocals from Mann and Nothing never cease to intrigue me, one rough and the other melodic, but it is their ability to blend their differences so well that stands Mushroomhead out from the rest of the pack.

Overall heavy rock with metal fusion, there are surprises in XIII that will tickle your musical tummy and perk your ears up in interest. My absolute favorite song on the CD would have to be Sun Doesn't Rise, but its difficult to pick just one from this amazing collection of songs.

In Kill Tomorrow the treat is the tasty break in the song that provides a spectacular drum solo followed by rolling, crunching "railroad" guitars. Listen for the baby giggling in the background.

Mother Machine Gun starts out with a beautiful piano solo, that quickly melds into Mann's growling vocals, before being joined by Nothing's mellow metal-croon. Nowhere to go and One More Day have some interestingly dark, intense moods. The Dream is Over and The War Inside are a pure, driving metal fest, and I can't leave out the beauty of the classical piano sounds in Our Own Way, sending us the lyrical message to "Arise! From your failures, Traitors all await your final fall."

The synthesizer and drumming, marching mood in Destroy the World Around Me, with its building feeling of a premonition of dread, and don't forget to log in with your CD and pick up the copies of The Simpleton and Along The Way from Mushroomhead's website, a nice little bonus.

I don't know what to say about Thirteen. It stirs the beast inside me in pleasing and yet uncomfortable ways. I can honestly see myself sitting on a grassy hillock, a crisp breeze fluttering my hair, looking out over the valleys as the world ends around me.

That odd, Celtic feel brought to life with the guitar/synthesizer, as mournful as the sound of bagpipes rolling across fog shrouded Heaths. I feel like I am frozen, locked up rigid with longing, and forced to gaze into the abyss of my own mind.

And just when you think the music is going to release you, a child's laughter fills your headphones, and the beast spreads its wings to lift you up once more, the same tune but deeper and more sorrowful, sharply contrasting with the baby's giggling. A choir is brought in now, lifting up the highs while the bass pounds lower still, and eventually fades into nothing more than the sounds of a scratchy record on an old phonograph.

Then the song breaks into a remake of "Crazy" by a early nineties pop artist named Seal, taking something originally mediocre at best and cranking it into a modern rock masterpiece. Other bands have remade pop tunes successfully, like White Zombie's version of "Boogieman" and Dope's version of "You Spin Me Round", and Mushroomhead joins the ranks of those successful covers.

Really, don't let anyone say this song is boring. It is very un-metal, but a truly talented band should be able to move you in mysterious ways, and Thirteen moves me deeply inside, lightening the sludge as the base of my soul's pillar.

ENJOY!!