Pinhead � Pogo: Ascent From Hell 
Label: Self Released
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Tracks:
Defy Myself
No Escape (Reality)
Puppet
Conformity
Unchanged
Control
Dissension
Division Within
Fate

With Pinhead you get what you'd expect from a band named after a character from the "Hellraiser" movie franchise; seriously intense and heavy music.  If there is such a thing as nu-speed-metal then these guys qualify. Plenty of power chords, primal vocals and machine gun like precision drumming make up the largest portion of the songs, but they also change things up a bit with a slower feel with No Escape (Reality) which forgoes the power chords for a ska-reggae guitar sound. But they go for maximum rock with tracks like Puppet, Defy Myself and Conformity. They mix it up pretty good with a nu-metal feel and some classic metal riffage thrown in.  Not your typical cookie cutter nu-metal band they encompass what's cool with the modern metal scene and the classic venom of bands like Slayer and Pantera.