The joke is not funny anymore. Please stop.
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The write up for this album promised passionate soundscapes. Actually, what it does serve up is insipid and dull variations of stuff that’s been done hundred times before. They are trying hard but there is nothing here to make the album feel anything more than a cheap copy of stuff done far better elsewhere.
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You may recognize this lot as they represented Finland at last year’s Eurovision Song contest. They were the ones who felt like a collision between Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park. I would love to say that I had my preconceptions smashed and that they have produced an era-defining masterpiece that rejuvenated nu-metal. But sadly, what they are thrown together is a mess of contradictory sounds that just sounds like a focus meeting gone horribly wrong. It’s a smorgasbord of different metal genres with no thought about how the different styles will fit and be glued together. Just a mess from start to finish.
Read MoreThe fact that this is Five Finger Death Punch’s ninth album proves that there is indeed something amiss with the world. The truth is though that they have simply recorded the same album nine times, as there is no variance here from their previous releases. This is all toxic masculinity put to banal repetitive music. It’s every stereotype that metal has desperately tried to shed, personified in a record. There is so much creativity in modern metal that it actually affronts me that it is albums like this that are the ones that get the promotional oxygen, just plain awful.
There are plenty more albums that I hated but that’s enough for now. If I’ve slagged off something or someone that you love, then sorry but that’s the beauty of doing this is it all subjective. One person’s enormous failure is another one’s godlike icon. Anyway, the also-rans are next, which are the ones where I will be a little bit nicer but won’t start throwing out superlatives just yet.
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