Skeletons

THE ULTIMATE METAL CHALLENGE - Nu Metal

I’ve had this album on the backburner for a while, so I might as well review it for Nu Metal, because I honestly couldn’t choose anything that I didn’t want to give a bigger review for in the future. Anyway, Nothingface are one of those late 90’s/early 2000’s nu metal bands that are quite underrated, but have retained somewhat of a cult following since their inception, and for good reason. Both efforts I’ve heard from ... read more

Having been a fan of this band for about a decade at this point, I can safely call this record my favorite of theirs. For a long time, it was Violence, and while I still think that album is more consistent, I'd say it's consistent to a fault. The heavy/melodic dynamics on that album are used so uniformly that by the end, the individually great songs start to blur together. This album, by contrast, pulls those dynamics even further in opposite directions. In other words, they're ... read more

Thanks for the recommendation @Blackmetalhead2 I quite enjoyed this album, It really reminded me of the Band Mudvayne but a fair bit heavier and with in my opinion worse melodies. I was fairly surprised by the pretty good heavy vocals and decent regular singing.

Damn this is truly an amazing album, the mix of harsh and melodic songs really was done perfectly in this