Review Summary: You and whose army?
Manic is a metalcore album with a splash of industrial flavour, some hip-hop seasoning, two cups of radio pop, and one cup of nu-metal. Confused? You should be. Manic is the most interesting song, a collision of genres, and it’s a glorious dumpster fire; the hip-hop portion is awful, sounding like plagiarism of your favourite artist. The song may bump, but at what cost? The cost of their reputation. Like Manic, the entire album sounds like a band trying too hard to be edgy and modern. The “edginess” is turned to max in the terrible song, High Horse, sounding like leftovers from a Five Finger Death Punch song.
If We Came As Romans and Starset collaborated and decided to copy their most average material, Wage War is the result. The song Circle The Drain sounds like if Falling In Reverse drained all inspiration, and everything that makes it catchy, from their song Zombified. I’m comparing Wage War to a multitude of bands because the band is unoriginal, but I shouldn’t have to tell you that because the album art speaks for itself. Death Roll is one of the only salveagable songs here, but it stands alone, with forgettable songs surrounding it - it’s pretty entertaining. Half the songs are skippable, (especially the second half of the album), because this is generic trash. The most I can say is this: the breakdowns are somewhat decent, the vocals are smooth as butter (obviously auto-tuned to death), and there’s a good riff or two. Recommended for twenty-something year old idiots that wife up the first person they see because they’re horny virgins.
