| Balzac / Out Of The Grave And Into The Dark |
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| Album: | Out Of The Grave And Into The Dark | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Balzac | Added: | Dec 2005 | |
| Label: | Rykodisc | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-01-29 | Pull Date: | 2006-04-02 |
| Week Ending: | Apr 2 | Mar 26 | Mar 12 | Feb 26 | Feb 19 | Feb 12 | Feb 5 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 26, 2006: | Multiple Personality Disorder Beyond Evil 308 Pt.1 | 4. | Feb 23, 2006: | Multiple Personality Disorder Beyond Evil 308 Pt.1 | |
| 2. | Mar 21, 2006: | Megapolisomancy Beyond Evil 308, Beyond Evil 308 | 5. | Feb 15, 2006: | Epic Soundtracks - Post Valentine Syndrome Zetsubou-No-Ano-Basho-E | |
| 3. | Mar 09, 2006: | Multiple Personality Disorder Season Of The Dead | 6. | Feb 13, 2006: | banana in the middle 1.4 Beyond Evil 308 Pt.2 |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2006-01-24 | ||
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Glam horror punk and roll, metal/industrial tinged but with 2/4 galloping beats, what you might expect from The Misfits’ record label. Unfortunately many songs veer into crap pop-punk realm and the cheesy cd liner photos appear to be substantiated. But then they quickly go back to the good stuff. Weird. Maybe it’s a Japanese thing to “look the part” and to intersperse obligatory crap pop material but as an American purist I wish they’d just stick to the heavy material. I think they sing in Japanese so no FCC worries, just worry about the crap pop-punk factor (btw: if you like pop-punk, just invert this entire review. In case you didn’t notice I don’t even consider it a viable genre). 1) doomy slow-mid sparse intro 2) galloping near 2/4 upbeat hard rockin 3) 2/4 gallop but a more glammy metal tone and pop punk type vocals 4) pop crap 5) heavy rockin, screamo vocs, cool shit 6) pop crap 7) pop 8) cool industrial rock feel with noises and drop tuned depth 9) driving pop ick 10) yawn pop 11) quiet start then a brief drum and bass snippet followed by heavy urgent rock 12) murder sample intro followed by hair metal wanky 2/4 pop punk 13) barf 14) ick 15) sci-fi movie sample intro feel, then a sampled electro industrial tune follows that is cool in a NIN/Skinny Puppy way, another take on track 8 16) pop repetition but like an amalgam of all the above, dude, this sucks, huh huh huh 17) sorry, I cant get past that sucky pop-punk vocalization 18) yet another take on tracks 8 and 15, this must be their “hit” but I can see why, its cool 19) poop-punk, but more poop than punk 20) a case study in “at which part, measure, does a good punk song turn to shitty pop-punk?” 21) this one sucks from the start 22) a cheesy ballad that is surely Velveeta (maybe this is the one that gets them little Japanese groupies who dress like anime characters and wear hello kitty hair things) | ||
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