SCARSICK

I guess there's something wrong with the world today.I have no other explanation seeing so many 5-star reviews for this album.Or maybe Daniel pays them all? :lol: PoS tried to sell out but even that attempt failed.I never much liked them - too much power-metal and thrash-metal in that prog plus hardly bearable vocals.This time PoS released even more uglier effort.I listened to it few times (yes,I'm kinda masochist ;) ), not more - I want to stay sane for future years. The only good thing here is cover's character, which displays reaction of every PoS-fan on this album :) The album itself has nu-metal ("Scarsick", "Spitfall", "Flame to the Moth" - almost stolen from LINKIN PARK's "From the Inside" actually), METALLICA-like derivative ballads ("Cribcaged" and "Kingdom of Loss"), 2 "parody" songs which both fail to amuse ("America" and "Disco Queen") - PoS lame even in making parodies, even self-parodies...It ends with pseudo- epic entitled "Enter Rain" (10 minutes in 4/4 based on 3 or 4 chords). When it ends, you feel yourself happy. Well, this is not Prog at all. Yes, there are few "odd" signatures (like 7/8 and - oh god,it's complex! - 5/4), but MUSICALLY every second-hand Nu-metal band is more progressive and challenging. Lyrics are pretentiously anti-american - sorry, guys, but that's not THAT fashionable...GREEN DAY did it better... Imagine yourself standing with you $ and looking at the cover of this album in your local store.Done? Now, DO NEVER MAKE THIS DREAM COME TRUE!!! Spend your money on helping poor.I won't even recommend to download this one, because it is ugly. "Golden Razzy" to Scarsick, it fully deserves it!!!