Strapping Young Lad / Alien
Album: Alien   Collection:General
Artist:Strapping Young Lad   Added:May 2005
Label:Century Media  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2005-09-04 Pull Date: 2005-11-06 Charts: Loud
Week Ending: Nov 6
Airplays: 1

Recent Airplay
1. Nov 02, 2005: Eels in the Loo
Thalamus

Album Review
mike
Reviewed 2005-09-05
Metal? Thrash? Very hard to describe heavy music that’s for sure. It has a unique production style making it sound slightly industrial and sequenced, like Ministry. It has unique vocals that both sing in a way you can understand and scream bloody murder. The drumming is just amazing including blast beats from the former drummer of Dark Angel and Death. Then add tons of sarcasm and melody.
**1. Relentless, short, gruff vocals and sung vocals.
2. Chugging guitars that border on nu-metal. Keyboards and a long instrumental beginning. Very progressive metal, with lots of changes, a long breakdown and guitar solo, and a long story.
**3. FCCs. Heavy sequenced sounding thrash, great double bass drums, metalcore sounding guitars, and brutal screaming. Heavy groove. Somewhat cheesy vocals sarcastically singing about love.
5. More dramatic and more keyboards.
**6. Quick thrasher.
7. FCC. Medium paced and choppy. Sarcastic chorus with cheerleader style backing vocals.
8. Quiet intro with some spoken vocals, clean individual note guitar. Isn’t heavy.
9. Another track that begins quiet. Slow and heavy but many melodic, even ethereal sections.
10. Bursts of speed.
OK Stuff -mph


Track Listing
1. Imperial   6. We Ride
2. Skeksis   7. Possessions
3. Shitstorm   8. Two Weeks
4. Love?   9. Thalamus
5. Shine   10. Zen
  11. Infodump