Dark New Day - "Twelve Year Silence"
(Warner, 2005) DUD
Rap rock is dead. So why do so many people want to dig up the rotted corpse and do horrible dirty things to it? Aren't there laws againt that kind of thing? Apparently not, because Dark New Day, comprised of Clint Lowery (Sevendust) Corey Lowery (Stereomud) Troy McLawhorn (Doubledrive) Brett Hestla (Creed) and Will Hunt (Scrape), tries to do exactly that, and in the process they've created what may well be the worst major-label album of the year.
Their press materials call Brett Hestla's vocals "effervescent". Well, if this Creed touring bassist turned singer is trying to make me projectile vomit whenever his voice (which blends the worst of the vocal sounds of Staind, Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park into one horrid mess) is heard, then I suppose he's doing his job. Of course none of the "great" rap rockers of our generation had good voices -- as being able to scream loudly without your vocal chords splitting in twain was usually the only prerequisite to accepting the job -- so I might have been willing to let the band slide on this had they had an interesting musical sound.
Unfortunately they choose to rip off everyone from Korn to Tool without managing to come up with one song that matches what either of these bands were able to do with their music. Couple that with the insipid lyrics ("You're cutting me in two / ripping me in three / you're killing with those words you say to me / how many pieces can you take from me?" is the chorus from the obviously Linkin Park inspired track "Pieces") that make having brain surgery without anesthesia preferable to repeat listening, and you've got yourself an album to avoid at all costs. There should be a punishment worse than hell for anyone who can find this enjoyable.
Dark New Day would be best advised to take another twelve years of silence before even thinking about assailing us with this type of horrid musical necrophilia. Leave rap rock buried six feet under, and for the love of all that is holy, bury the rest of the stock of Twelve Year Silence with it. We'll all be forever grateful.
Rap rock is dead. So why do so many people want to dig up the rotted corpse and do horrible dirty things to it? Aren't there laws againt that kind of thing? Apparently not, because Dark New Day, comprised of Clint Lowery (Sevendust) Corey Lowery (Stereomud) Troy McLawhorn (Doubledrive) Brett Hestla (Creed) and Will Hunt (Scrape), tries to do exactly that, and in the process they've created what may well be the worst major-label album of the year.
Their press materials call Brett Hestla's vocals "effervescent". Well, if this Creed touring bassist turned singer is trying to make me projectile vomit whenever his voice (which blends the worst of the vocal sounds of Staind, Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park into one horrid mess) is heard, then I suppose he's doing his job. Of course none of the "great" rap rockers of our generation had good voices -- as being able to scream loudly without your vocal chords splitting in twain was usually the only prerequisite to accepting the job -- so I might have been willing to let the band slide on this had they had an interesting musical sound.
Unfortunately they choose to rip off everyone from Korn to Tool without managing to come up with one song that matches what either of these bands were able to do with their music. Couple that with the insipid lyrics ("You're cutting me in two / ripping me in three / you're killing with those words you say to me / how many pieces can you take from me?" is the chorus from the obviously Linkin Park inspired track "Pieces") that make having brain surgery without anesthesia preferable to repeat listening, and you've got yourself an album to avoid at all costs. There should be a punishment worse than hell for anyone who can find this enjoyable.
Dark New Day would be best advised to take another twelve years of silence before even thinking about assailing us with this type of horrid musical necrophilia. Leave rap rock buried six feet under, and for the love of all that is holy, bury the rest of the stock of Twelve Year Silence with it. We'll all be forever grateful.
posted by Jonathan Sanders @ 2:54 PM
4 Comments:
It's not really rap-rock though, in fact I don't really remember Brett rapping at all on this CD. Yeah, it has some heavy numetal influence, but that's what you expect when you get people from Sevendust, Stereomud, and Skrape together. On the other hand, Sevendust and Stereomud were always some of the better bands in that genre, and doubleDrive was great at...whatever genre you want to classify them as. Personally, I thought this CD was great.
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