Second full-length
album by
industrial techno-metal outfit
Gravity Kills, Released in 1998 on
TVT Records. This is altogether a
pretty good album. The style is generally
intense,
pounding industrial
dance music with pretty straightforward delivery and song structure. There a couple of slower, more contemplative tracks;
Crashing is kinda funky,
Wanted is full of airy singing over mad drumming, and album closer
Belief (To Rust) is a big fat slice of
ambient effects and
whispering giving way to massive
powerchords and
anthemic vocals.
Some criticisms. There isn't all that much variety on the album. Aside from the aforementioned tracks, most of it sounds pretty similar; sometimes too much so. Also, its not a terribly original work. I'm sure pretty much everything on here has already been thought of before. Also, the lyrics pretty much suck. I mean, there's nothing wrong with the singing, Jeff has a reasonably good voice, its just that the lyrics for the most part have little to no meaning. I suppouse the lyrics aren't important, and the songs are just meant to be good dance music. Which, granted, they are.
Good CD, shame about the meaninglessness.
Rating: 6/10
Tracklist:
- Falling
- If
- Crashing
- Drown
- Alive
- Wanted
- Always
- One
- Disintegate
- Belief (To Rust)
Anyone who thinks the lyrics to this CD are worth noding remember: Don't Namespace Your Lyrics! :-)