Typically I don't like metal. It tends to be mindless shit. Guitarists slamming the same four notes over and over again, drummers doing a hummingbird heart impression on the double bass while keeping a very basic 4/4 beat on the snare/cymbals, bassists doing...something (can't hear them), and 'vocalists' gargling vomit in the back of their throats and kind of forming lyrics, most often about the 'darkness in their heart' or the 'hatred in their soul' or whatever is marketable to fourteen year olds nowadays. I don't know. The point is that Erebus is different. Atypical metal is good metal. The guitar parts fucking bounce and swagger and thunder. Force you to headbang. You can't not. The drums aren't static foundation. They're dynamic and interesting. Treated like an instrument and not a mechanism. The bass is not only present, but highlighted numerous times throughout Prey for Our Nation. The lines pop through their descent and imbed in your brain so that you hear them on repeat while scanning soup cans and jeans at Wal-Mart (maybe that's just me). The vocals range from furious howls to deep-voiced echoing sermons about the ills of our government and the irony of our culture. It's all pretty badass. If I had to describe Erebus to someone who'd never heard them, I'd probably say something along the lines of "Think of metal. Now replace all the 'crap' with 'good'. That's Erebus."