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Album: self-titled
(1998) |
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Reviewed by: Darklight This band has become one of the best metal/industrial crossover bands out there today. This album just plain rocks. The band has matured a lot since their last release. The music on this album is tight. Everything is structured and polished to pure perfection. This is a great multi-member band that really know their instruments. While electronics and synths are not very apparent here, they are used enough to give this band more of an edge. However, it's the guitars, bass and drums that are played very well here. Also, the singer can actually carry a tune in a deep and powerful way that adds emotion to the songs. These are heavy and aggressive songs that mix melody with angst. Rage with harmony. Each track sounds different and mix a lot of changing elements in them. While the music is thrashy at times, it also becomes more rhythm and beat based as well to keep everything very interesting. There appear to be elements of Deftones, Faith No More, Korn and Tool included here. This is dark metal music with some slight drum and bass style beats combined with mood and passion. The songs are very serious and the lyrics are well written. The singer mixes it up by singing melodically as well as shouting with anger. His voice is deep and clean and fits the music perfectly. All of the instruments compliment each other as they flow together in a twisted metal nightmare. Every song here is just as good as the next and nothing will ever bore you. Some tracks are a little slower and moody, but are still very good and do help to add variety. This album is proof that metal music can be diverse and include a lot of changing emotions. This is a must for all metal/industrial crossover music fans out there.
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Album: "Stone-Ten
Stitches" (1997) |
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Reviewed by: Darklight This album does not deliver anything new to this genre of music. It's your basic aggressive guitar thrashy metal music with deep angry shouting vocals. But electronics are thrown into the mix as well to give this band a home in the industrial music scene. But this album will appeal much more to metal fans than industrial ones. Although the songs are fast paced and heavy with thrashy elements, they seem rather dull. It's because they don't include a lot of variety or change. Also, the vocals are basically just shouting. The singer attempts to sing with harmony at times, but it doesn't really work. The songs don't sound too much different from each other. They have subtle differences, but not enough to make anything really stand out. One song does stand out amongst the rest. It's called "Spider's Bride". It's more melodic than most of the material found here, but still dark and heavy. The singing is actually pretty good, and does change. Electronics are more up front, and beautiful female background vocals add even more dimension to the song. It's a shame that more of the songs here couldn't have been of this same quality. But none of the songs are bad. It's just that they're nothing new or different. Greater uses of electronics, synths, and shifting singing styles would enhance this band's sound. But this is still a pretty good electro metal album if that's what you're looking for.
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