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Oh dear. Less than a minute into this and I'm almost swept off my feet by an intense (or shall we say "brutal and pounding" as this is "a ferociously brutal UK metal sound" according to the promotional leaflet accompanying the CD) sense of déjà vu. Yes folks, it's "modern traditional metal" time again - yet another band trying out the combination of old-style riffing, nu-metal pounding rhythms, and that oh-so-clever switch between "clean" vocals and "shouting and puking at the same time" vocals, which become really annoying almost straight away.
This isn't a bad record. It's competently-played and well-produced. But these two things do not a good listening experience make, especially when hundreds of other bands are trying to do exactly the same thing as this one - and sounding the same. This is therefore very ordinary. It's been done a thousand times before. Not a single track sounds out, despite the band's undoubted enthusiasm, and the fact that the promotional leaflet enthusiastically refers to the band's "maintaining stabilizing melodic overtones" - I get the impression that this was written by a former Dulux salesman. But if this album was paint, I don't think I'd be spreading it on my walls to appreciate. The colour's been used too many times already, so I think perhaps I'll leave it in the garden shed to go crusty. |
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