dan's jams - music reviews

Strong album. Rather raucous and caustic, but not in a ultra death metal kind of way, it's more of a less polished and bouncy chaotic way. Vocals are generally half-sung, half-shouted, with the rare harmony thrown in. Sometimes reminds me of Marilyn Manson and sometimes Drowning Pool. The chaos of song structure is often quite interesting: listen closely to the quiet part of "Dirty" and you can hear a dial tone running along at tempo. Commerciality is thrown by the wayside on "Take What I've Taken" - an absolutely dragging, plodding death march of a song that blossoms into a brutally heavy yet compelling chorus.