Gore grind that flies off the handle as soon as you hit play. Like Carcass, Cattle Decapitation use their gory imagery as a protest against meat consumption.
Not unlike Ramones and Cheap Trick’s appeal, The Apples In Stereo morph ’50s bubble gum pop into hurling piles of noise, maintaining their unmistakable hooks.
One of The Big (insert low number here) of the second wave of nü metal, Disturbed return after two years of gigging with another record of punchy chop metal.
Sped-up AC/DC-ish punkers with lotsa dueling Les Pauls and shouted background vocals. They haven’t written their “Ace of Spades” or “Whole Lotta Rosie” yet.
There are some catchy tunes, but the content is so watered-down and vapid that we’re left with punk with no anger, pop with no wit, retro with no irony, etc.
Not a bad song in the bunch. Rather than simply recording new vocals for this English-language version, many sound as if they were nearly or entirely re-made.
Below the Sound compact dry nagging riffs with a mechanical rabbit-punch whacking from different angles until you’ve been worked over by a sock fulla golfballs.