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Title: Not Even Close To Greatness
Review: I picked up this CD because Total Guitar magazine said that it had elements from "every metal band you've ever loved." Provided that one of those bands is Linkin Park, this is probably true. I'm glad to see a new band trying to be heavy, but this doesn't quite cut it. I witnessed the emergence of death metal and black metal and it seems that they "wrote" their songs by just sticking together a bunch of admittedly cool riffs from past acts (several Obituary riffs are prominent). The jerky lack of transitions betrays this method of writing. The vocalist is just too pre-pubescent to my ears (hence the Linkin Park connection). M. Shadows may have taken $12 of my paycheck, but I'm hoping that seven people will read this and buy something else instead...then I will be avenged sevenfold.Try As I Lay Dying for metalcore, or Emperor or Morbid Angel for metal.
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