Testify for My Victims

In the new digital age, it’s rare to see someone walk into a store and buy four or five CD's when they can easily download them. I am one of the few, the proud, who decide to give money to these bands, and I recently bought this album with a few other *cough* better selections.

This album was the worst of the litter, and it is a shame, because one of the other albums (which will remain nameless) is not what I expected as well. What I expect of this album was more straight forward riffing, in their "lame Gothenburg" way. I use that term to describe a generic label given to their early work, I saw a lot of potential in the early stuff, and I was hoping to see this band with something more rhythmic and *ahem* more metal.

Once you listen to the first track, you can predict each transition to a chorus. That’s the thing, every song had the same dam chorus, or at least its chord structure was similar (I know a lot of people want to claim that the lyrics are different so it is different, but this singers lyrics really don’t mean spit anyways, so who cares about that?)

Now to change things up, the band throws in some cool breakdowns. I feel uneasy saying cool, because each little breakdown is disappointing, even as you listen to them. They tend to chop the segments up quicker, and they try to use some criss-crossing patterns in the riffs, that only come off as trite. The soloing however is excellent, and I commend their guitar players for putting some beauty over this generic slop.

I give the album 30 percent for the overall production, as I was enticed to buy it. But those points could go to the previous albums for showing some promise. I have to admit that I haven't listened to that work in detail, but I have given their albums enough spins to have me familiar with them. I bought this to cement my fandom of this band and I am totally disappointed. It pained me to listen to this album; I forced myself to listen to every track.

I am most disappointed in the band in general "realizing their potential like The Haunted and Soilwork." Those bands suck now, and well here goes another one. See you at ozzfest, you make me sick. (Not actually scheduled for ozzfest currently I mean it as a joke)