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SOiL’s major label debut, Scars, explodes from the Windy City with a hard-rock radio blend of melodic hooks and crunching riffs. This nu-metal outfit manages to temper the simplicity of drop-d tuned chunk metal with alt-rock and cock-rock attitude. The band keeps it simple. They don’t blend hip-hop, they don’t dose tracks with techno-loops, but stick to simple meat and potatoes rock-metal power, with an occasional decrease in distortion for a few seconds of sensitivity. Catapulted by their debut single...
...Instead, it undermines the X-ecutioners’ roots by diluting the urban elements with a quintessentially suburban and pathetic attempt at being edgy. Not only does Mike Shinoda sound like he’s reading lyrics from a scrap of paper, but the musically rigid “nu-metal” shoves the DJs to the side, as if they were guests on their own album...
...Even more telling though, is the film’s soundtrack—you can tell that this film is a hip horror flick, simply by listening to the soundtrack’s first song. Overall, there is nothing listed on the quieter side of nu-metal, so if you are not a fan, then skip this album...
...Harvard captain Peter Capouch wrote in an e-mail. “We will have to make sure that we play very tight in our defensive zone. The coaches have been stressing that all year, and we are getting better but it has to be our main focus against NU and the rest of the year...
...relying heavily on covers, it is difficult to cover up the paucity of original material. Some songs are bound to be less suited for live performance and, without irritatingly gimmicky treatment, others may stick too close to the studio originals to be worth a live revisitation. So, even for nu-soul prodigy Jill Scott, a live album such as Experience: Jill Scott 826+ is an ambitious follow-up to 1999’s acclaimed Who Is Jill Scott? This is particularly true as Experience relegates all the new studio material to the “+” disc...