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GRADE by: Jonathan Mariante |
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How deceiving appearances
can be. By the artwork, title, and song titles of this album, I thought
this would be a death metal album. It is anything but. This group calls
themselves "hardcore", but I don't hear anything very hardcore here.
They're just another bunch of Green Day wannabees (as if there weren't
enough of THOSE in the world already!), and not very good ones at that.
Their music is just watered-down pop-punk, as I said, like Green Day,
with a bit of Pearl Jam here and there. These guys aren't great musicians,
they are mediocre at best. All their music basically sounds the same,
the songwriting leaves something to be desired, the music itself is
rather dull and not played very well, singer Kyle Bishop can barely
sing at all, and the production ain't that great, either. As if all
this were not enough to keep this CD off my play list, there's the closing
track "The Glorious Dead"...I don't know what the hell these guys were
thinking (or taking!) to put THIS on their album! For one thing, it's
not even a real song, it's just a bunch of cheesy sound effects that
sounds like something you'd hear on one of those "Spooky Sounds" albums
you play at Halloween parties. And it goes on for OVER TWENTY MINUTES!
I MEAN, GIVE ME A BREAK HERE! DO THIS GUYS HONESTLY THINK ANYONE WANTS
TO HEAR TWENTY FRIGGN' MINUTES OF LAME-ASS HALLOWEEN PARTY SOUND EFFECTS?!
COME ON! Even if you like Grade's style of music, you don't need to
hear THAT! Get real, guys! Even without "...Glorious" (hardly!), this
is not a very good album. Pass on this one.
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