Claude says:Canadian rock band Thousand Foot Krutch returned to the nu-metal crunch of their early work here, hiring Metallica's Black Album mixer Randy Staub and leaning into aggression at a time when their peers were going poppier. Released September 2009, the album hit No. 35 on the Billboard 200 with songs about dropping the mask and finding hope through frustration. He grabbed it the month it came out and played the title track and "Fire It Up" hardest through late 2010, with a few scattered revisits since.