This was meant to be there return to rock. What they have done is do bad cover versions of themselves as well as the usual inconceivable Springsteen impersonations. ‘Living Proof’ tries to be ‘Living On A Prayer’, ‘Waves’ tries to be ‘Always’. ‘Walls of Jericho’ is an atrocious attempt at modern Springsteen and ‘Kiss The Bride was written for Jon bon Jovi’s son’s marriage to Millie Bobby Brown, need I say more.
Read MoreSebastian Bach has always been an odd ball, this is a bizarre record even by his standards. It is all over the shop and there is no discernible structure. It is just a jumbled collection of songs that doesn’t in any way feel like an album. Mindbogglingly unilinear.
Read MoreThis dreadful collaboration has been all but been forgotten in all the clamour about next year’s Oasis reunion. On paper Liam’s dulcet tones accompanying one of the greatest guitarists ever should be divine but they struggle to bring the stardust of either of the illustrious day jobs. I’m listening to it now and even I have forgotten how the songs go. Gloriously unrecallable.
Read MoreThe re-emergence of Nu-metal is not only uncalled for but also a direct convention of numerous rulings by the United Nations. This is an album that wants to have been released twenty years ago. Its completely out of its time and feels both dated and unconvincing.
Read MoreAuthentic minimal scandia folk from the Dutch singer and composer. It feels very worthy but is incredibly boring. The aural equivalent of watching paint dry.
Read MoreYawn. Shinny happy and vacuous. Horrible band that have been making horrible safe rock for ever, Another completely bankrupt release that adds nothing to the world.
Read MoreSTOP MAKING RECORDS. You weren’t very good in the nineties/early noughties, and you have only got worse. This is safety catch on punk with nothing to say apart from the desire to carry on being famous.
Read MoreSadly not the German auteurs The Ocean, Oceans are a completely useless cross of nu-metal and old school death metal. Metal is not by any means the usual put down of directionless noise but this is giving the whole scene a bad name. It wants to be brutal but actually is as dangerous as a Teletubby.
Read MoreI like experimental. I like awkward. I like avant-garde. But this is just unlistenable slap dash bullshit. It has no creative flair. Its just a lot of disjointed plinky plonky nonsense and sounds tossed together without a second thought.
Read MoreTheir last record was great, but this feels like they are resting on their laurels big time. It is very very “Will this do?”. Sloppy and just plain uninteresting, it screams of contractual obligations.
Read MoreWhere has the urgency gone? The danger? The jagged excitement. This is so so mundane. It feels like nobody playing on the record actually wants to be there and interestingly the rest of the band did indeed walk out on singer and guitarist Tobias Young as soon as this was recorded. It is lacking in any pizzaz or sense of occasion.
Read MoreYou all know the story of Anvil. I would love to say that album is a spectacular return to form that justifies there unfeasibly long lifespan. But sadly, record number twenty is a horrific egotistically mess that appeals to no one. It is trying to be metal but instead feels rushed and redundant. It tries so hard to be fun and instead feels cringe worthy and cheap. This is now sadly a worthless vanity project.
Read MoreGod save me from bands that think metalcore is just about contrasts. Get a guy that can do growls and get a geezer that can clean and suddenly you think you are doing something cutting age. What Vicious Rain have forgotten is that it needs songs. This album is a mess. Unstructured and lacking in any creative integrity.
Read MoreMore metalcore by numbers, this time from Germany. So so formulaic. It is like they have blindly followed an idiots guide to metalcore. It’s got the shouted verses and the immaculately clean verses and the chugging guitars that actually feel empty and vacuous. It’s a cheap knock off imitation of Killswitch Engage and fails in having anything creative or exciting to bring to the party.
Read MoreShe is meant to be quirky. This is Barbiecore. A joke taken far to far and removed of all its humour. It is brainless pop tethered to nu-metal and it sounds like the shunt job that it is. It also lacks any discernible charisma. If it is all one big joke then it has forgotten the funny bits and very soon descends into bland tedium.
Read MoreUnbelievably safe. It is like someone has taken rock and put those Ikea corner protectors for toddlers all over it. Every single bit that could be considered dangerous has had protective wrapping stuffed over it. What you are left with is a horrific sanitised mess that is meant to appeal to pre-teens that might have heard what metal is all about.
Read MoreI am not hating on the new bands because I’m old. I’m hating on them because the stuff they are producing is so thin and musically un-nourishing. Ghostkid seem to believe all you need to do “alt-metal” is scream over some blinky blink sounds. It is creatively bankrupt and feels so under-developed. Oh, look Im growling over a breakdown and then tenderly clean singing, I’m really edgy, Not. There really is no need.
Read MorePop punk from Blackpool. Its problem is that it is trying to be clever, which does not become pop punk. It is meant to be a mindless adrenaline exposition. This album tries to bring intellect to that concoction and fails miserably. Its like a poundshop Blink 182 trying to do Deftones covers. Horrible and completely unnecessary.
Read MoreMy love of metal comes from its emotive passion. I adore the fact that it brims with life, it makes me feel and ignites my senses. This however is boredom incarnate. Nothing happens, at all. It limbs along with sub standard mediocre songs and then stops. It is not that it is bad, it is just really really boring.
Read MoreThom Yorke has stated on numerous occasions that he isn’t sure he wants to reconnect with his gloom rock mothership Radiohead. Hearing the latest tosh from his latest side-tracking side project I would implore him to realise that slight and introspective doesn’t genius making if there isn’t the songwriting to back it up. Everything is horrendously sterile and there isn’t a single song that ever goes anywhere. Woeful.
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