I had a hard time deciding where to put this album, as it's
a bit of Death 'n' Roll, but not by much. Regardless, I read a review about
Vermin's debut album "Plunge Into Oblivion", which was a decent
showing of death metal from Sweden. Fast forward a few years and a rummage
through the discount bin at the second hand record shop and I stumble across
this album. I had no idea it was the same band, but it was on Metal Blade
records, so for 2 bucks, what the hell. I later discovered that this was indeed
the same band however, they had since switched styles to a more bluesy death
rock a'la "Wolverine Blues" with some gruff vocals. Now I have yet to
hear "Plunge Into Oblivion", so I can't compare, but this album
really misses the mark in pretty much every category. It's one-part imitation
(not done well at that), one part accessible (given the era of simplistic
Nu-metal and metalcore) and one part vanilla (artificial flavoring). I wasn't
sure if I was giving this album a fair shake, so I gave it another listen just
to be sure, but I suppose not all finds in the discount bin are gems. Sometimes
that is where they belong.
Pass.
Rating: 1
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