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
What Is Art? to justify their own tastes. Jahn notes the "often confusing use of categorisation" and the lack of definition of the key concept of emotion. Bayley writes that "the effectiveness of "What is Art?" lies not so much in its positive assertions as in its rejection of much that was taken for granted in the aesthetic theories of the time". Noyes criticises Tolstoy's dismissal of beauty, but states that, "despite its shortcomings", "What is Art?" "may be pronounced the most stimulating critical work of our time". Simmons mentions the "occasional brilliant passages" along with the "repetition, awkward language, and loose terminology".