The good thing about being old is that I'm neither wired to like metal nor tempted to fake it. Just as I suspected, these Johnny-come-latelys-meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss-es can no more do grunge than they can double-ledger bookkeeping. Grunge simply isn't their metier. So regardless of what riff neatniks think, this is just a metal album with the tempos slowed and the songs shortened, which is good because it concentrates their chops and strengthens their songwriting, and bad because it also means more singing, which they can't. C+
>>129070770yeah james was just not a good enough singer to float them as a radio buttrock band.
>>129070770Every word of this is just wrong and stupid.
>>129070878>yeah james was just not a good enough singer to float them as a radio buttrock bandnot in the least because he trashed his voice in the early 90s and was not the same again by this point
>>129070770They weren't even trying to go for Grunge on this album I don't think, it's more of a CoC pastiche.
I liked it. And that’s good enough for me.
>>129071100Only "Until It Sleeps" was kind of grunge. Even so it predicts Nickelback more than anything.
