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Title: I blame their parents
Review: I can't claim to be a hardcore metal fan, but The Haunted has always been one of my concessions to the genera simply for the sheer speed and brutality of their songs.That's just the problem. Neither of these things describes The Dead Eye. This album sounds like dozens of other watered down radio-metal bands that I can hear at any given moment in my car.There's not a single "Bury Your Dead" or even a "Sweet Relief" present on this disc. Every song is slow and trudging. The vocals are almost all sung, which isn't bad in and of itself, however the singing sounds like an imitation of Days of the New or some other second-rate grunge band.This isn't about keeping an open mind or allowing a band to progress (though, in this case, they've certainly regressed.) It's about the severe disappointment of expecting one thing that has been great in the past and getting just the opposite.This may as well be a different band.
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