Title: A bit of a mess, really.
Review: I found Simple Aggression's 1996 album Gravity in a clearance bin recently and decided to give the band a try. I figured that since it was on David Chastain's Leviathan label that it ought to be at least halfway decent and should have the kind of guitar shredding Chastain loves so much.More often than not, these cutout bin gambles pay off, but this time I struck out. Simple Aggression's sound seems to be a jumbled mix of thrash, grunge and nu-metal, none of which are my preferred musical genres. To make matters worse, it's bad thrash, bad grunge, and bad nu-metal. Gravity is also totally devoid of melody, which kills it for me right there.I'll give the band credit for maintaining a metal sound at a time when metal was a dirty word (hence the 2-star rating), but Gravity just isn't doing anything for me, and I'm pretty open-minded. It was a struggle to make it all the way through this album, and I'm not at all surprised that this was Simple Aggression's final album.
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