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Rateofdepress is one of hundreds of British bands who have jumped on the nu-metal bandwagon during the past couple of years but unlike many others they have succeeded. It didn't take long before the native record company Casket Music discovered the band and now they have recorded this debut album at a studio in Dorset with producer Rick Parkhouse. If you wanted to know what a mix of Linkin Park, System Of A Down and Coal Chamber would sound like then here's your chance. Brutality is mixed with equal amounts of melancholy and beauty in a very elegant manner. Like any other modern metal band they use both harsh and soft vocals and manage to combine the two counter-parts very nicely which is one of the most important qualities a band needs to possess in order to achieve success in this genre. The other is the ability to write music suited for these vocals and here is where Rateofdepress stand out from most of their colleagues. The songs are held together with nice and sometimes very subtle melodies which work hard to enhance heavy guitar walls. This is a band who have found that magic balance in their music that so few nu-metal bands manage to do and they have done it very early in their career. We should see much more from Rateofdepress in the future. Nu-metal is definitely not my genre but I know how to tell good music from bad and this IS good music.
| Tracklist |
| 1. D.O.A. |
| 2. Because You're Mine |
| 3. Garden Of Roses |
| 4. Bleach The Sky |
| 5. Two Steps From Paradise |
| 6. Rise |
| 7. Why I Can't Sleep |
| 8. When A Fad Becomes Fatal |
| 9. Familiar Faces |
| 10. DislekSICK |
: 42.15
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