Track Listing

1. Antisaint
2. Brainiac
3. Saferwaters
4. Well Enough Alone
5. Straight Jacket Fashion
6. The Fad
7. Humanoid
8. Paint The Seconds
9. Midnight to Midnight
10. I Get It
11. Saturdays

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1069 in Music
• Released on: 2007-04-03
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks

Amazon.com
Chevelle has been releasing solid, if not entirely original-sounding, albums for the better part of a decade now and Vena Sera serves as another pleasant but workaday entry in the band's still sparse oeuvre. The group's continued debt to Tool remains obvious on the hard-hitting opener "Antisaint" with its throbbing guitar work and from-the-gut vocals and can also be heard during the arena-ready stomp "The Fad." There are few surprises throughout, very little we haven't already heard from Chevelle and its contemporaries before: The pulsating, detuned riffs that populate the mosh-intensive "Humanoid" and the fairly pallid late-album arrival "Midnight to Midnight" (which could have been a serious radio contender circa 1999) share space with the uplifting guitar figures of the slightly pop-inflected "Brainiac" and the nearly anthemic "Well Enough Alone" to familiar but comforting effect. Still, lovers could do far worse than dive in and enjoy some workmanlike riffs delivered in an enthusiastic fashion that many of this band's imitators will never manage to muster. Vena Sera is decent through and through but hardly ever life-changing.--Jedd Beaudoin

Customer Reviews

Amazon reviewer is too harsh on Chevelle
what a hypocrite this cd rocks its better than the last one, and the last one was good. And so what if they sound like Tool. Tool comes around every 5 or 6 years and gives us a good cd, but they are slowely losing the enthusiasm they once had. Where as in Vena Cera its very much still there. It's much better than the cd this reviewer made last year...

Awesomeness!!!
This is now one of my favorite bands. If you listened to the band Red then this is just like them. This album is completely clean with no curse words in it. I love the way they sing and their hard metal rock!

A Triumph!
Chevelle gets better with each release. This CD has been in
my 6 disc changer for well over a year.