Hot Zone Presents: Wild Problematic

Now that I am all caught up, let me catch you up to today's biggest head-scratcher/headache, Hot Zone Presents: Wild Problematic. A few months ago, I was going to review this but I couldn't put anything together for the life of me. It was too terrible for words at the time, it left me speechless. This nine minute trip hop/hardcore amalgamation is in essence a mistake and an auditory atrocity that leaves the taste of lukewarm piss in place of quality beer. This release is characterized by its desultory nature, poor execution, and lackluster production. Alleged demo or not, this is somehow the worst thing the band has put out by far and when talking about this band that's really saying something. Now I am not hating on this release because of it being trip hop, Yattering released III in 2005 and I thought it was a great album when I got around to hearing it. Recently, Rings of Saturn released their self-titled two months ago which heavily used trip hop elements; despite not being a fan of the band, I think it was their best release so far. That being said, I do not know what to make of this demo. The first song is like thirty seconds and may as well have been scrapped. "Wish You Would" rivials their previous songs "Chuggy Gayles" and "Plaguerizm" in being the worst and most hackneyed song I have heard in my entire life. We get it, they like rap so they decide to take up rapping a little more seriously. They love Body Count and if we were to compile a list of their known influences it would have five or so rappers at this point. "I Can't Lie" isn't much better, white dudes love to make rap even worse than it already is; after the intro we are gifted with the presence of some "heavy" riffs and rapping. At best this song is a failed experiment, at worst the song is an incohesive mis-match of what I can tell are three dissimilar styles. Finally, the demo ends with a cover of E-Town Concrete's (whoever that is) "Hold Up", which is characterized by its horrible mix and production, acoustic (almost classical) guitar bits, rapping, a chuggy riff, and its 'problematic' ending. Wild Problematic is all over the place, serves no purpose, and has nothing of value to it whatsoever. That's nine minutes of my life I will never get back, thanks for that Hot Zone.