THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD

These guys are a trio from Florida who happen to all be brothers.They say their influences are LED ZEPPELIN, RUSH, DREAM THEATER, BLACK SABBATH, well you get the picture. Two unique things about them are one, that they are Christians and two, the vocalist sounds very much like the singer for JANES ADDICTION.

The appeal for me was instantanious during the first song.The heavy bass lines, the in your face drums and the lead guitar that takes such a prominant role. The vocals did start to wear a little on me towards the end of the record, which surprised me because initially I loved the tone. Now there are dual vocals at times that work extremely well, and the riffs and guitar solos are all over this disc. This is a concept album about the fact that God's foolishness is much wiser than man's wisdom, and God's weakness is much stronger than man's strength. And it is all summed up on the final track that has some fellow preaching on and off throughout it (very annoying). "Space And Time" is my favourite, the heavy riffs and the cool guitar solo, and the way the song gets hard and well softer, back and forth.

Barely 3 stars really, but I have a soft spot for this style of music.