Not necessarily those held by Cross Rhythms. The Showdowns new album, Blood in the Gears, represents the band down to its DNA.

The opinions expressed in this article are Silent, grimly faced, we march them down
Calls from above, behind these walls these cowards hide
This city, this land, a promise we have to claim
Stretched for miles through barren land to conquer Jericho
Lose your voices with the sky
Draw your swords, the hour is high
We sing.

With light vs darkness thoroughly explored in the songs with titles like 'Hell Can't Stop Us Now', 'Iscariot' and 'A Proclamation Of Evil's Fate' this is a good debut produced by Living Sacrifice's Bruce Fitzhugh. The Showdown is a Christian southern metal/metalcore band based in Elizabethton. The Showdown is an American Christian metal band from Elizabethton, Tennessee. Plenty of fret-flying guitar solos with songs often building to epic climaxes and a vocalist whose extraordinary growls will scorch the wallpaper off your bedroom walls. Just when you thought old style death metal was falling off the radar along comes this ear-blistering release which you could call melodic death metal if you wanted to show off.

The showdown a chorus of obliteration