Before the Jason Vs. Freddy soundtrack,
I had never heard of Mushroomhead. I’d seen some pictures of them whilst
browsing some magazines once and thought ‘Hey, they look pretty angry…
I’d better check them out.’ So when I found out we’d just got in the new
Mushroomhead CD, I was pretty excited (well… as excited as I get anyway.)
What a goddamn disappointment.
I’d heard people calling them the ‘new
Slipknot,’ but this is much much worse. I actually don’t mind Slipknot’s
self-titled album – Joey Jordson comes up with some phat beats, (like on
Eyeless) some of the riffs the guitarists churn out are pretty decent and
I personally quite like Corey Taylor’s vocal style. Mushroomhead could
never touch a mediocre band like Slipknot in a million years. Ever.
The drumming is pathetic; pathetically
simplistic with soft beats and basic fills, the kind you might expect on
an Eminem record. The guitarists are a joke, managing to come up with uninspired
four-to-eight chord patterns on their bassy downtuned guitars. And the
vocalists – shiat. Where to start? We’ve got the bloke who screams all
the time (let’s call him ‘Mr. Screamy’) who sounds decent at some points,
but it becomes starkly obvious after a few tracks that Mr. Screamy has
an extremely limited vocal range, and basically a useless singer.
Then we’ve got the other bloke (let’s call
him ‘Mr. Whiney Whore’) who’s got some stupid, constantly wavering and
extremely ugly vocal style. He is similarly inflexible and uninspiring.
Then we’ve got the DJ, who does fuck all throughout most the CD except
for shove a few derivative scratches any fool could pull. He fails (unlike
the Slipknot DJ) to add any kind of energy or value to any track.
I wonder if this is how most people see
Slipknot – lacking in musicianship, supported only by some stupid gimmick.
I don’t really think Slipknot is anywhere near as soft or ‘posey’ as these
guys. At a glance of the CD you might actually be fooled into thinking
that Mushroomhead are the next metal stars. You might turn to the back
and see song titles such as Kill Tomorrow, The War Inside and Destroy The
World Around Me and be misled, thinking that Mushroomhead are in some way
heavy or violent in nature.
It has been a long time since I’ve heard
a band so dependent on its clichéd pseudo-toughman gimmick, so lacking
in substance, so devoid of musical skill, so unoriginally crafted, so blatant
in its attempt to blend genres and failing so badly, so limited by their
own lack of creativity, so disappointing, so mournful, so pathetic, so
uninspired and so boring. You’ll find yourself disheartened and disillusioned
if you’re ever bored enough to give the disc a spin, knowing full well
that someone out there will be stupid enough to buy this crap.
Mornings gone,
Wackos of dawn,
Shaking my soul.
Overturned,
Delirious,
The rain with the cold,
With nowhere to go.
Like the new Adema or Limp Bizkit, this
album will have you locked in your room crying with your head between your
knees rocking back and forth, starving yourself for weeks and constantly
deliberating the very real option of a killing spree in order to save yourself
from the constant anguish which plagues your pained mind.
Mushroomhead
- XIII
Label: Universal
Rating:
Track Listing:
1.Kill Tomorrow
2.Sun Doesn’t Rise
3.Mother Machine
Gun
4.Nowhere To Go
5.Becoming Cold
(216)
6.One More Day
7.The Dream Is Over
8.The War Inside
9.Almost Gone
10.Eternal
11.Our Own Way
12.Destroy The World
Around Me
13.Thirteen
Posted by
Monarch: Hey, is the "Mother Machine Gun" song
a play on the band Sister Machine Gun? I like their song "Bitter End" [SMG,
not MH]
Posted by
dont worry about it(216): what a bunch of losers U people are ignorant
mushroomhead is a great band.mrh 93 slipknot 98 nuff said.
Posted by
1 millionth lame repetative post.: Hey did you know that mushroomhead has
been sucking ass with mask long before slipknot sucked their first ass?
Posted by
Your worst Nightmare: HOLY SH*T !!! i didnt think it would go
this far, i agree that slipknot stole the whole masks think but who the
F**K cares?? the only reason they did that is because they looked up to
mushroomhead because slipknot knew they were *and alays will be* not nearly
as good as mushroomhead , oh and another thing, slipknot sounds WAY THE
F**K different than mushroomhead so u should first do some F**KING HISTORY
ON MUSHROOMHEAD BEFORE YOU F**KING JUDGE THEM !!?!*?!@^* ok?? and another
thing, I F**KING HOPE YOU BURN IN HELL YOU WORTHLESS PEICE OF CRAP, ok
hobo?? no more posts saying anything bad about msuhroomhead.got it??
Posted by
Kytty: Okay. I've been nice, but since you all
don't want to be nice to Hobo and I find him to be a very nice guy what
little I have personally spoke to him, I'm going to speak my mind. What
right do any of you all have to be so downright mean to him for an OPINION?
that is all it is. He hadn't even heard of Mushroomhead before this review
and I'll admit, yes, I am a fan of them, but I am not a hardcore fan. Some
of their music, in my opinion, is good. Some, on the other hand, downright
sucks. I don't understand why the majority of you are also ganging up on
him and trying to decide his sexuality for him, in essence. "fag"? Come
on, now, children, how much more third grade can we possibly get? This
is getting pathetic. but, you know what, I'm going to just sit back and
laugh until the majority of you all can grow some danog's and see just
how idiotic this all seems over one review. Makes me really wonder where
all your free time went that you have to stoop so low as to continuously
fight on a review board over a guy's opinion and you couldn't be out doing
REAL things instead of spending the time to type up how he's a fag. Much
love to you all with a side of a cyanide sundae!
Posted by
Monarch: Next person that says something that has
already been said should choke on a dick and die. [e.g. "Mushroomhead was
before Slipknot you fag!!1"]
Posted by DeadSun
: an afterthought: Pretty "wild", huh?
Posted by
DeadSun: You know something, Monarch? I might have
read someplace, that Mushroomhead actually came BEFORE Slipknot. ( smirk
)
Posted by
Kytty: Gotcha, Hobo. Will e-mail ya. Lol
Posted by
Hobo: No it attracts psudeo-crazy people Kevin.
Basically my agrument is thus; they started it and easily exceeded my tolerence
threshold for stupidity.
Posted by
Hobo: Kytty rezzentment is where I yell about
things I hate or things that interest me, and in doing so offend a large
amount of people. I just use it as a vent and to draw cartoons and such
when I'm bored. thewinterofyourdiscontent@hotmail.com, enjoy. **EVERYONE
READ MY LAS 4 POSTS BEFORE POSTING ANY MORE CRAP**
Posted bycritic: mushroomhead = 5th rate nu-metal band.
Absolutely nothing special about this group and nothing outstanding about
them. They are a gimmick band with mediocre music with fans that seem to
have room temp. IQ's