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THE SECOND STAGE TURBINE BLADE

Coheed And Cambria

 

Crossover Prog

3.30 | 131 ratings

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Bonnek
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2 stars SST is a disappointing album. C&C had not fully come into their Rush on emo-punk sound yet and the song writing is generally weak and too unremarkable for me.

The opener Time Consumer is a good example. C&C try something that is supposed to be energetic and catchy but it fails at both. The melodies are bland and the playing is flat and uninspired. In fact, an endless stream of songs follows that is hard to survive without ruining the skip button of your remote control (or Winamp yes).

Everything Evil would be the only track to rise a bit above the average. But it sounds completely nicked from Caress of Steel, even though it doesn't use any actual Rush riff. No, the talent to pull that off isn't present yet: the guitar playing is substandard nu-metal and the vocals are incapable to do anything else but the one trick they keep doing on each track. It's hard to describe what that trick really is though, but it sure never leads to a memorable vocal line that sounds anything different from any other vocal melodies on the album.

Generic, uninspiring and immature. And yet I can understand some of their appeal. Hard to rate. If this was C&C's only album I might opt for 2.5 stars. But given their somewhat grown maturity on later albums I'm somewhere around 1.5 stars. I think thats 2 stars if I can count a bit.

Bonnek | 2/5 |

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