What a difference a few years can make, eh? When DevilDriver dropped their ferocious ninth album Dealing With Demons Vol. I in October 2020, few would have imagined that we’d see 31 months and major line-up changes before the arrival of Vol. II. With the end of COVID, the departure of guitarist Neal Tiemann, drummer Austin D’Amond and bassist Diego Ibarra, and the arrival of Alex Lee, Davier Perez and (the returning) Jon Miller, this harsher, heavier follow-up hits different. Not in the least a cobbled-together sequel, DWD2 is a Return Of The King-style concluding chapter borne from the same 2018/2019 sessions as its predecessor, with frontman Dez Fafara purging the deepest, darkest untouched recesses of his tangled psyche with authentic, infernal abandon...