The War of Art (album) and searing guitars." "Rough Edge" said that the album "is one hour plus of blistering, mind blowing, molten metal" and that "song after song after song is nothing less than a pure metal experience." The War of Art (album) The War of Art is the second album by the industrial metal band American Head Charge, released in 2001. The album was recorded at Rick Rubin's allegedly haunted recording studio. The title is a play on words of the Chinese book "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu. This is the band's only album with Aaron Zilch on samplers, and David
The Book of Taliesyn band's singer Rod Evans are very functional to the music and the marketing Deep Purple's record label was building up for the American hippie audience. Evans took inspiration for the fantasy-themed "Listen, Learn, Read On", which contains lyrical reference to the album's title, from the 14th-century Welsh manuscript Book of Taliesin, a collection of poems attributed to the 6th-century poet Taliesin. The title and cover art of the album were also inspired by the manuscript. Instead psychedelia and its rituals play a large part in the lyrics of "Shield". Simper thinks that Evans' lyrics are "far better than anything (...)