OKComputer1016
06/14/08, 04:28 PM
Emmure - The Respect Issue
Record Label: Victory Records
Release Date: May 13, 2008
If ever there were an album that could stand alone as the final curtain call for the metalcore genre, it’s Emmure's The Respect Issue. Operating off of a checklist of clichés, Emmure offer up one of the lamest releases of the year, and yes, I know that the year is only half-over, but I don’t think anything in the next six months can shake this disc from 2008’s list of top regrets.
Let’s start with the title, shall we? Big, badass mosh-core stresses two main rules for being in the awesome club with all the other humongous shirtless dudes: firstly, get the fuck up! Punch somebody! Secondly, you’d better respect me because I have a microphone (there’s an angry broad-shouldered feller on the cover of the album to remind you of this point, in case you forget).
Look at tracks like “False Love in Real Life,” which could have been made by any metalcore group in the last few years. You got your single-note guitar pedaling, overdone double-bass, incredibly slow and generic breakdown, and Every Time I Die-light spoken word interlude (you know, the kind where you run out of breath from yelling, so you just speak awkwardly). That’s only one track, and I picked it at random. There are nine other “songs” that completely fill that outline as well.
I don’t even know what to think about the last track, “You’re More Like Friend Without the R” – Panic At The Disco? Marilyn Manson? Which incredibly-awkward song-title-maker inspired this nomenclature? And that’s not even to evaluate the music, which sounds like if Misery Signals just entirely gave up.
It’s unbelievable that this kind of music is still marketable. It’s been recycled over and over again, ever since Killswitch Engage broke it big, and at its worst (like right here), it’s not even successful at cloning the groups that came before, but instead just sounds like a parody.
My advice to Victory Records is that it would probably be more cost effective to have one guy record one guitar-note once, and then duplicate it on record for 45-minutes. Also, see what Fred Durst is doing these days, because he’d be a good cheap source for the awkward rap-rock sputtering and record scratches that made this record the "work of art" that it is. “Chicago’s Finest” indeed.
any album that was released in the last couple of years by anyone
myspace.com/emmure (http://www.myspace.com/emmure)
Record Label: Victory Records
Release Date: May 13, 2008
If ever there were an album that could stand alone as the final curtain call for the metalcore genre, it’s Emmure's The Respect Issue. Operating off of a checklist of clichés, Emmure offer up one of the lamest releases of the year, and yes, I know that the year is only half-over, but I don’t think anything in the next six months can shake this disc from 2008’s list of top regrets.
Let’s start with the title, shall we? Big, badass mosh-core stresses two main rules for being in the awesome club with all the other humongous shirtless dudes: firstly, get the fuck up! Punch somebody! Secondly, you’d better respect me because I have a microphone (there’s an angry broad-shouldered feller on the cover of the album to remind you of this point, in case you forget).
Look at tracks like “False Love in Real Life,” which could have been made by any metalcore group in the last few years. You got your single-note guitar pedaling, overdone double-bass, incredibly slow and generic breakdown, and Every Time I Die-light spoken word interlude (you know, the kind where you run out of breath from yelling, so you just speak awkwardly). That’s only one track, and I picked it at random. There are nine other “songs” that completely fill that outline as well.
I don’t even know what to think about the last track, “You’re More Like Friend Without the R” – Panic At The Disco? Marilyn Manson? Which incredibly-awkward song-title-maker inspired this nomenclature? And that’s not even to evaluate the music, which sounds like if Misery Signals just entirely gave up.
It’s unbelievable that this kind of music is still marketable. It’s been recycled over and over again, ever since Killswitch Engage broke it big, and at its worst (like right here), it’s not even successful at cloning the groups that came before, but instead just sounds like a parody.
My advice to Victory Records is that it would probably be more cost effective to have one guy record one guitar-note once, and then duplicate it on record for 45-minutes. Also, see what Fred Durst is doing these days, because he’d be a good cheap source for the awkward rap-rock sputtering and record scratches that made this record the "work of art" that it is. “Chicago’s Finest” indeed.
any album that was released in the last couple of years by anyone
myspace.com/emmure (http://www.myspace.com/emmure)