The truth is that Sevendust just kills it yet again!
The excellent guitar riffs, the booming percussion, the ability to always to have the perfect song to lead off an album and the amazing vocals of Lajon Witherspoon all return with this 14th studio album, and none of it disappoints one bit. In fact, it exceeds Blood & Stone (their last album) from a sequencing standpoint, as that album had those very hard-sounding guitar riffs early on, only to pretty much abandon that sound after the song "What You've Become".
That type of abandonment is not the case with this album, however, as they balance out their sound perfectly. They also throw a change-up right off the bat, as the first track "I Might Let The Devil Win" sounds like a combination of Witherspoon's solo song "Love Song" and track three (Hope) of the album "Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow". And despite it not being the typical way that this band leads off an album, it works perfectly well, due to the vocals of their ultra-talented lead singer.
Second, following their tone-setting change-up, track two "Truth Killer" (which is also the title track) and track three "Won't Stop The Bleeding" could have easily swapped places in this album's song order, as the former of the two has number three stuff that's on the level of track three (Unraveling) of the album "Cold Day Memory". But this combination works, as it gives off the back-to-back vibe that the album "Animosity" possesses with the song "Trust" coming directly after "Praise".
Third, when it comes to their knack for having a kick-ass song at the five-spot in the order, I was initially surprised that the track "Everything" was put fourth in this order. But after hearing both the opening vocals and subsequent powerful sound of this album's confirmed fifth track "No Revolution", I was/am glad that they didn't reverse the order with those two songs. Especially when "Sick Mouth" is the perfect song to follow the aforementioned "No Revolution".
Fourth, we get a couple of radio-friendly sounding songs in "Holy Water" and "Superficial Drug" sandwiched around the really gritty sounding song "Leave Hell Behind". Furthermore, both the aforementioned "Holy Water" and aforementioned "Superficial Drug" easily could have made the cut for Blood & Stone, along with the fact that the latter of the two songs is the perfect one to follow the aforementioned "Leave Hell Behind". And speaking of the aforementioned "Leave Hell Behind", it would be the perfect song for a character-driven action movie that stars either Ryan Gosling or Keanu Reeves.
Fifth, this band brings more grit at the tenth-spot via the song "Messenger", which sounds like a slower version of the aforementioned "What You've Become". Furthermore, this song (Messenger) is yet another one that falls under the category of "Sevendust's late-album magic".
Lastly, this band has no post-Messenger letdown at track 11, as they kick ass with the song "Love And Hate", which has vibes of "Beautiful" (track 11 of Animosity), "Redefined" (track 12 of Animosity) and/or Better Place (track 11 of Cold Day Memory). And of course, that song isn't the closer, as that distinction belongs to "Fence", which closes out this album in a fashion that is similar to how "Face To Face" closed out the album "Seasons".
Overall, I've only listened to this album in its entirety on three separate occasions up to this point, but I already love how they sequenced the order of all the songs. And speaking of all the songs on this album (and Sevendust albums in general), I have a rule about having one clear-cut favorite on each one of their albums. So, with that being said, I do indeed have a clear-cut favorite on this album, with it being "Messenger", due to it having a slow-burn sound that pulls you right in. Plus, I did mention that that song falls under the category of "Sevendust's late-album magic".
In conclusion, if you like Blood & Stone, then you will LOVE this album, thus it being yet another one for you to add to your collection of "Dust"!