The Crap Stack: The Showdown, Beast, Girlicious
Here at Spinner, we receive more CDs than we can possibly listen to. Sadly, many of them, whether good or bad, get consigned to The Crap Stack, where they languish until they're eventually carted off to become shiny silver landfill somewhere. However, in our version of Musical Lotto, we've decided to rescue -- completely at random -- three discs from the pile and give them a proper and fair reviewing. Will the chosen CD be crap-tastic -- or just plain crap? Let's find out, shall we?The Showdown: 'Back Breaker' (album): Let's be perfectly frank: This album has a pretty hilarious photo on its cover -- the guy looks like a cross between a homoerotic depiction of St. Sebastian and a steroid-amped Steven Seagal lookalike. Weird, right? Thankfully, the music on the album doesn't leave the listener guffawing. There's certainly drama aplenty, but it's handled well -- opening track '[Titanomachy] The Beginning' has distant-sounding timpani drums, waves, thunder and chorus-like keyboards, but it quickly gets down to business with some gigantic guitar riffs and thunderous drumming. This band is unashamedly metal, and they don't care who knows it.
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Posted by Rob Smy on Mar 20th 2009 3:00PM
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