With a wall of killer guitars, some really cool
basslines and the odd hooky melody or two, it's hard
to imagine why I just couldn't get into this band.
Maybe it's that, given the style of angry metal they
play, nearly one hour of music is well beyond enough.
Maybe it's that the kind of shouted/screamed vocals so
prevalent throughout this record have been done to
death as of late. I don't know. But I'm betting that
we're only getting half the story here. NDE, like an
overwhelming number of their contemporaries, drop
hints left and right on disc as to the power of their
live shows. There are moments here, where you think
that in the warts-and-all live setting certain tracks
would come off sounding more like they were produced
by human hands and human hearts rather than recording studio devices. Still, this is not a record absent of heart, just one with not enough heart in it.
Added: April 23rd 2003 Reviewer:Jedd Beaudoin Score: Related Link:NDE Website Hits: 2692 Language: english
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With a wall of killer guitars, some really cool
basslines and the odd hooky melody or two, it's hard
to imagine why I just couldn't get into this band.
Maybe it's that, given the style of angry metal they
play, nearly one hour of music is well beyond enough.
Maybe it's that the kind of shouted/screamed vocals so
prevalent throughout this record have been done to
death as of late. I don't know. But I'm betting that
we're only getting half the story here. NDE, like an
overwhelming number of their contemporaries, drop
hints left and right on disc as to the power of their
live shows. There are moments here, where you think
that in the warts-and-all live setting certain tracks
would come off sounding more like they were produced
by human hands and human hearts rather than recording studio devices. Still, this is not a record absent of heart, just one with not enough heart in it.
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