Static-X – 2009 – Cult of Static
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Static-X
Title: Cult of Static
Label: Reprise / Wea
Released: Mar 17, 2009
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Special Edition
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Lunatic
#Z28
#Terminal
#Hypure
#Tera-Fied
#Stingwray
#You Am I
#Isolaytore
#Nocturnally
#Skinned
#Grind 2 Halt
#W.F.O.
#Looks That Kill
Review:
The Death Trip rolls on, and after some so-so offerings, Static-X got back in the game first with Cannibal, and now here with Cult Of Static. Koichi is back full time with the band, and he helps make this sound like the Static-X of old. This one is the special edition with two bonus tracks.
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Sixpin – 2006 – Made to Bleed
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Sixpin
Title: Made to Bleed
Label: Self Released
Released: Feb 28, 2006
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#High Fashion
#Tragic in the Fire
#Shatterborn
#Redefined
#Cleanse
#Closure of Ashes
#Shiner
#Escape the Trap
#So Long
#An Accident Waiting to Happen
#Gift
#Disintegrate
Review:
One of Buffalo’s finest bands rocks, but with melody, mixing the intensity with intelligent songwriting and musicianship.
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Nickelback – 2008 – Dark Horse
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Nickelback
Title: Dark Horse
Label: Roadrunner
Released: Nov 18, 2008
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Something In Your Mouth
#Burn It To The Ground
#Gotta Be Somebody
#I’d Come For You
#Next Go Round
#Just To Get High
#Never Gonna Be Alone
#Shakin’ Hands
#S.E.X.
#If Today Was Your Last Day
#This Afternoon
Review:
Another Nickelback album. You’ve heard the last four, you’ve heard this one. It’s still fun, no matter how unoriginal and cheesy it may be. Besides, she *does* look so much cuter with something in her mouth!
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Guns N’ Roses – 2008 – Chinese Democracy
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Guns N’ Roses
Title: Chinese Democracy
Label: Black Frog / Geffen
Released: Nov 23, 2008
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Chinese Democracy
#Shackler’s Revenge
#Better
#Street Of Dreams
#If The World
#There Was A Time
#Catcher In The Rye
#Scraped
#Riad N’ The Bedouins
#Sorry
#IRS
#Madagascar
#This I Love
#Prostitute
Review:
The album everyone said would never see the light of day. It finally did, and was it worth the wait’ I say no. Should this have been titled Axl Rose’s solo album’ Definitely. I’d have a much easier time liking it and getting into it if it didn’t have the GNR name attached to it, because this ain’t GNR. Having said that, it’s definitely Axl, and its multi-multi-multilayered tracks feel a bit too overproduced for my ears, but the songs are still strong, as is Axl’s voice. Certainly an interesting listen, but in no way deserved the GNR tag.
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Down – 2007 – Over The Under
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Down
Title: Over The Under
Label: Self Released
Released: Sep 25, 2007
Packaging: Digipack
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Three Suns and One Star
#Path
#N.O.D.
#I Scream
#On March the Saints
#Never Try
#Mourn
#Beneath the Tides
#His Majesty the Desert
#Pillamyd
#In the Thrall of It All
#Nothing in Return (Walk Away)
Review:
Stolen From Amazon:
1st full-length in 5 years from heralded hard rock pioneers, Down. Featuring Philip Anselmo, Rex Brown, Pepper Keenan, Kirk Windstein and Jimmy Bower, ‘Over The Under’ is 60 minutes plus of groundbreaking music combining elements of Black Sabbath, Lynyrd Skynyrd and everything in between that sets the group apart from anything in the marketplace today. This record documents the lives of these New Orleans natives through the last 5 years of catastrophe, tragedy and ultimately triumph.
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Disturbed – 2008 – Indestructible
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Disturbed
Title: Indestructible
Label: Reprise
Released: Jun 3, 2008
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Indestructible
#Inside The Fire
#Deceiver
#The Night
#Perfect Insanity
#Haunted
#Enough
#The Curse
#Torn
#Criminal
#Divide
#Facade
Review:
Disturbed continues their comeback trail. After a strong first outing with The Sickness, I always felt that Believe, for as good and popular as it was, lacked something in the excitement department. Ten Thousand Fists brought that excitement back, and Indestructible continues down that path and then some. This is arguably the heaviest album they’ve put out, and yet will give them even greater mainstream success, which isn’t always the formula. It works for them though. Interestingly, a reworked Perfect Insanity finally rears its head on this album, after kicking around since the days before The Sickness (it was included on the M.O.L. DVD).
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All That Remains – 2008 – Overcome
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: All That Remains
Title: Overcome
Label: Razor & Tie / Prosthetic
Released: Sep 16, 2008
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Before The Damned
#Two Weeks
#Undone
#Forever In Your Hands
#Chiron
#Days Without
#A Song For The Hopeless
#Do Not Obey
#Relinquish
#Overcome
#Believe In Nothing
Review:
The Massachusetts metalcore powerhouse is back with their strongest album to date. Every song rips, and even when it seems like they’re slowing it down a notch (Two Weeks, Days Without), they come right back and slay you (Before The Dammned, Relinquish). Great stuff!
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Three Days Grace – 2003 – Three Days Grace
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Three Days Grace
Title: Three Days Grace
Label: Jive
Released: Jul 22, 2003
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Burn
#Just Like You
#I Hate Everything About You
#Home
#Scared
#Let You Down
#Now Or Never
#Born Like This
#Drown
#Wake Up
#Take Me Under
#Overrated
Review:
The debut from the Canadian rockers.
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Raine Maida – 2008 – The Hunter’s Lullaby
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Raine Maida
Title: The Hunter’s Lullaby
Label: Kingnoise
Released: Aug 26, 2008
Packaging: Digipack
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Careful What You Wish For
#Sex Love and Honey
#Yellow Brick Road
#The Less I Know (feat. Jared Paul)
#Earthless
#The Snake and the Crown
#Confessional
#China Doll
#Rat Race
#One Second Chance
Review:
Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida has long been considered intense–not just musically but also in his day-to-day political activism–so it should come as no surprise that his debut solo CD, The Hunters Lullaby, is neither light nor fluffy. Including similar but slightly different versions of the four tracks that comprise his 2006 EP, Love Hope Hero, this ten-song CD, according to Maida, didn’t start out as musical numbers, but instead as poems. In fact, poetry runs throughout this disc, whereby Maida repeatedly breaks out of singing and veers into rhymes a la Patti Smith, Saul Williams, and Leonard Cohen. The disc’s catchiest tune–lead-off single “Yellow Brick Road” (no relation to Sir Elton’s similarly named track)–is quite unlike OLP, with a Middle Eastern-sounding fiddle weaving around Maida’s Beat-meets-Slam-poetry, as he recollects his early punk-rock roots. Much of the CD is jam-packed with deep convictions, ranging from topics including politics and activists (“One Second Chance”), to moving his family from Canada to L.A. (“Careful What You Wish For”), to a song inspired by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (“China Doll.”) That said, every instrument used on the disc is acoustic, not electric (including wife Chantal Kreviazuk on piano and vocals), resulting in a lyrically noisy but sonically subdued disc.
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Cypress Hill – 1991 – Cypress Hill
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Cypress Hill
Title: Cypress Hill
Label: Ruffhouse / Columbia
Released: Aug 13, 1991
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Pigs
#How I Could Just Kill A Man
#Hand on the Pump
#Hole in the Head
#Ultraviolet Dreams
#Light Another
#The Phuncky Feel One
#Break It Up
#Real Estate
#Stoned Is The Way Of The Walk
#Psycobetabuckdown
#Something For The Blunted
#Latin Lingo
#The Funky Cypress Hill Shit
#Tres Equis
#Born To Get Busy
Review:
Led by the deep-toned Sen Dog and the deliciously adenoidal whine of B-Real and backed by DJ Muggs’s beats–as thick as the smoke they inhaled–Cypress Hill spun dope-fueled tales of revenge, revolution, recreational drug use, gangbanging, and cultural pride. Like R. Crumb’s Mr. Natural, but with a hardened voice and a B-boy attitude, Cypress Hill slow-walked their funk-flavored way through a minefield of anthems (the still sizzling “How I Could Just Kill a Man”) and comic manifestos (“Stoned Is the Way of the Walk”). Heavy on the bass line and punctuated by flashes of wit and rage, Cypress Hill’s joint was definitely one to draw deep on.
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