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Album: "Product
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Reviewed by: Darklight After four years of silence, Drown finally return with a follow up album to their excellent 1994 "Hold On To The Hollow" release. While the band has changed their sound slightly, it's still very obvious that this is indeed Drown. This is mainly due to the vocal delivery of Lauren. He has a deep rough voice that stands out. The overall band seem to have matured with their sound adding a lot more variety and melody into their songs. But they also kind of lost the electronic effects along the way as well. There are still some drum and bass style electronics mixed into the songs, but not nearly as much programming that was found on their debut album. While this is a slight disappointment making thier new sound even less industrial, there's still enough electronics here to make this more creative than your typical heavy rock music. What the band does very well is play guitar, bass and drums to perfection. Their structure is tight and they throw a lot of variety and diversity into their music. They create some extremely fierce and aggressive pissed off guitar thrashing heavy rock music. The vocals sing and rage in anger while the music assaults you, knocks you to the ground and keeps kicking you while you're down. Lauren mixes it up with his singing a lot by carrying a tune with melody one minute and then releasing growling fits of aggressive anger the next. The music follows along with his singing twisting and turning along keeping the listener on the edge. There are good rhythms and beats presented here along with some funky bass lines. The lyrics in each of the songs are very well written and I myself can relate to a lot of what is said. This makes the songs even more emotional for me. If you've had a good life without any problems then you won't get much from what is said in these songs. But if you've had to struggle, this album will speak to you. Each song is good here, but some do stand out a little more than others. I personally like "You Never Listened", "1605 (For My Suffering)", "Kerosene", "Tired Of Living Like This", "Redial", "Monster" and the last track which is not listed on the back of the CD case. Not everything here is fast paced and heavy. There are a couple of slower more dark moments as well. They fit well on the album and really add variety. My main complaint here is that all of the songs are just too short. They only play for about three to four minutes each. These songs are very good and they end before I want them to. This is about the only complaint that I have. I would have also liked greater uses of electronics, but there's still enough here to keep things very interesting. If you like bands such as The Clay People, Deftones and Korn, you will like this album a lot. It's definitely some of the best heavy rock music that I have heard lately.
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Album: "Hold On
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Reviewed by: Darklight This is angry and aggressive guitar driven electro metal with a dark edge to it. The vocals are not distorted, and they don't need to be. But the music is very hard and the singing is pure yelling. But there are changes along the way where both the music and singing does calm down for some melodic moments. There are some great uses of electronics found here, but they play only in the background. They don't actually create the music. This is a complete band with a singer, guitarist, bassist, and drummer. But there is a programmer as well, and he definitely lets you know it. Each and every song on this album is just as good as the next. But they all do tend to sound fairly similar to each other.
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