| 2.0 poor |
| Disturbed Asylum |
| I've been a fan of Disturbed since the release of pretty much Believe but this album just has too many alien elements in it for me to like it nearly as much as the band's previous releases. I can find a few songs catchy and even dare say they are well done but overall it just sounds like some sort of sick experiment in a basement faraway; something about hearing children crying at the beginning of a song does not even my sadistic nature to dance in joy... the joyous metal riffs and the like that one came to adore on TTF and Indestructible are usually gone here, instead there is some form of annoying tuning to how the riffs are presented that makes me shiver in dislike. I can understand why others might like it, but in either case it is not on par with what I know this Chicago-based band is capable with. I guess they just ran out of ideas after the concotion of different sounds they managed three years ago. Straighten up, mates. |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns |
| I real mainstream cabacle this once great Nu Metal band (nowadays a real odd sort of alt rock) has managed with their fourth full-length release. A few songs got my appeal but that only because they sounded anything off an odd mix of sounds; sometimes it is even hard to know if one is listening to Linkin Park or not, I just scratch my head during these moments and dream back to the early 00s when they actually were ambitious in the right direction, even if Nu Metal wasn't exactly the genre of music with the best reputation albeit that sound is much more this band's style before grabbing the hand of the major label cliche that is money digging. I am not even sure if they can manage even that this time around. MtM at least had the old sound intact at the first half of the disc but in contrast then ATS sounds much more like a distorted second part of that album: where it was more alternative rock than anything else and now with some added oddity experimental "soundscape". I am in doubt that they will ever get out of the grave they have dug for themselves for future any interest in the band's music (from my part at least)... unless they go back to the good ol' days of Nu, instead of trying something New and boring like this... |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Today Is the Day Willpower |
