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| 2.0 poor | bobafe6604 | August 25th 08 |
Sadly, Walls of Jericho do not enthrall me. In fact, there is little material on "The American Dream" that does much of anything for me; although the instrumentation is solid and the genre blend (punk, hardcore, thrash, etc.) does its thing; all in all "The American Dream" is just another ho hum by-the-numbers metal album. My main problem (*bracing for the flak I will receive yet again) lies in the vocals. Yes, the screams are produced by female vocal chords, but that doesn't giver her any special attention in my book (If you ask me, Opeth's scream is haunting and genuinely frightening). Candace just has the wrong idea here: she sounds more manly than most men screamers. Her guttural delivery is not without technique, but completely without any sort of range. This leads her to be placed in the bin of screamers that just don't rub me the right way: those who can't sing nor bring something new/exciting to the table. Besides solid drum work and some very nice guitar licks (can't forget the inaudible and thus uncredited bassist!), "The American Dream" is a been-there-done-that retread. Skip it.
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| 3.0 good | Blauwbaard | March 16th 12 |
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| 3.5 great | haley | March 13th 24 |
| 5.0 classic | frajpg | September 28th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Abraxas | October 21st 19 |
| 2.5 average | nbats | July 18th 19 |
| 2.5 average | Wolfe | November 29th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Brizzle | June 25th 16 |
| 3.5 great | neikos | April 19th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | kudcrap | April 11th 14 |
| 2.5 average | wil94 | November 7th 13 |
| 5.0 classic | arlowf | February 9th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Markk1 | January 6th 10 |
| 3.5 great | met65 | July 3rd 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | mar1s | December 17th 08 |
| 3.0 good | Clash | November 15th 08 |
| 3.5 great | grief | September 3rd 08 |
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