Originally published in Verbicide issue #13

Looks like the guys in Dry Kill Logic are off Roadrunner Records. Strange, they used to be the label’s poster boys; they symbolized everything Roadrunner stood for, and everything people who love and remember Roadrunnner’s heydays of Obituary, Death, and Suffocation, hate about the label. With Roadrunner’s recent signings of less nu-metal metal acts like Nightwish and 3 Inches of Blood, bands like Dry Kill Logic seem to be less of a priority. Maybe that’s why Dry Kill Logic decided to release this album on an unknown label.

I was never a fan of Dry Kill Logic, so I went into this review a little weary. It was pretty much as bad as I thought it would be, and it’s nothing I’d ever voluntarily sit through again. They seemed to take a page from their more “metal” contemporaries for this album, nothing too brutal, namely bands like Killswitch Engage, and surprisingly enough, Great Southern Trendkill era-Pantera. The clean vocals follow the pattern that all clean vocals seem to be taking lately, slightly whiny and longing. The heavier stuff is no more original. In fact, it’s not heavy at all. I’m sure they were going for it, but this album packs about as much wallop as Ben Stein on a tapioca pudding binge. But hey, at least they’re trying.

(Repossession Records, PO Box 548, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272-0548)