Originally published in Verbicide issue #6

“An aggressive blend of hardcore, metal, and indie rock.” Alright, I’ll give them the metal, and the screaming is sort of hardcore, but this is the scariest thing anyone has ever put on CD. When I was first told about them , I thought, “Hey, cool, screamo.” I like screamo, it’s all good. But this…well, it sounds like KISS had a baby with Incubus and then they let Tool raise it.

This is the band’s third album, following Transient and Fragments. It’s packaged like soft-core Tool, a mud-covered hand very much reminiscent of a certain Tool video which MTV played too much…  The screaming makes him sound like he’s dying, and doesn’t blend well with the chords they play. The music is very melodic then it goes into such intolerable rough loudness that the quality just drops to nil.

This record literally makes you want to cry, but it’s not the lyrics that do it. Those are actually partially decent, just conveyed in a, well, scary manner. If you like Limp Bizkit you might like them; otherwise I wouldn’t waste the cash.

(Eulogy Recordings, PO Box 8692, Coral Springs, FL 53075)