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| In case you’ve overlooked my previous reviews (shame on you!), this reviewer is very particular about how his metal should sound. In my view, metal should be fast, largely unrelenting and heavy as all hell. Like a monster truck or an out of control juggernaut. |
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Unfortunately, Below The Line’s EP, Odes To St Chris, manages to fulfil the exact opposite of this criteria.
Opener 'Right And Justified' plods along (for six minutes!) at a pace which would benefit being at least doubled in speed. I’m almost left waiting for the next note to appear in some places, and this is where the monotony starts to creep in. Alas, there is no marked change in output for the remaining four tracks.
There is no urgency, no pace and certainly no heaviness. Bands like Below The Line need to learn that detuned guitars and muted power chords do not make you Slayer. Vocalist Andy Hutton sounds like he’s being dragged into a quagmire of comatose by the band’s bloody-minded trudging down the sludgy paths of Staind and Nickelback, and I feel like I’m being dragged down with him.
I could listen to this album 100 times and be completely unable to tell one track from another. This is not only down to the fact that there are distinct similarities between each song, but the EP becomes as weary a slog as walking through a lake of rice pudding, meaning that by the end I’m fatigued and bored. |
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| James Haddrill - 2/10 |
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