Cost: 99¢
This looked like (and is) a definite dud, but hey, it was cheap, so I took the chance. Initially this looked like it might be some sort of industrial release due to the band name, album title, font of the band logo, and the picture on the back insert (some plastic tubing).
The inner liner notes made it painfully obvious this was probably either going to be nu-rock or some sort of groove-laden modern thrash at best. I quote a group of bands mentioned in the thanks list, which pretty much says it all: "Korn, Sepultura, Machine Head, Crowbar, Pantera, Stuck Mojo, Seven Dust." Yeah...
I was quite surprised by the first song, since it seemed to have some death metal influence. Unfortunately that was mainly because of the downtuned guitars, liberal use of growling backing vocals, and some riffing that was decidedly less groovy than the rest of the album. As the CD goes on it becomes clear that there's little in their groovy, aggro style metal/rock mix to excite the metal fan. Yeah, this isn't the worst I've heard--the vocals aren't as ultra-forced as some and thus less annoying, and they do avoid throwing actual rap parts into the music, but I wouldn't listen to this crap anyway. I should also add that the lyrics are hilarious to read and cringeworthy to hear. Just strings of dopey "motherfucker" and "fuck you" laced toughguy-isms filled with white trash angst, like the worst Pantera lyrics to the nth power (they actually have a song titled "Punk Bitch"). For the facially pierced and tribal tattooed crowd only.
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