Artist: Bronx Casket Co.
Label: The Music Cartel
Release Date: 10/31/00
Average Rating: 3
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Title: Bronx Casket Co. Artist: Bronx Casket Co. Label: The Music Cartel Release Date: 10/31/00 |
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Submitted by KefkaX (4/14/03):
D.D. Verni decides to go all out Brooklyn style and form Bronx Casket Co., a goth/doom metal band along the lines of Type O Negative and Life of Agony. Now the first thing that's on your mind is gee, Overkill doing doom metal without any elements of thrash? And by the end of the album, that will still be lingering about in your mind.When I first heard about this band and read reviews, I was really excited to hear that they were going to sound a lot like Type O and LOA (I hate to use those band names more than once in this review, but it's necessary to convey my point), which are two of my absolute favourite bands of all time. Seriously, I was psyched. Neither of those two bands ever get boring to me so if another band comes along that sounds even remotely close to the aforementioned, I soil myself.
And in this case, the album sounded a lot what I expected it to be (with the exception of little to no Overkill signature). Gothic undertones, slow but creeping grooves, singing instead of screaming (Spy does vocals on this album...yeah, that guy that used to be in the Misfits for a while). The concept is solid.
Something about the music itself though bugs me. It just seems hokey. The song titles are cliched to the point of overemphasizing the theme of the music (i.e. "Who Lives Forever" and "I Am God Here"). The lyrics are also somewhat laughable. Example: "Who wants to live forever, I think I would my friend, I'd like to be here until the very end". Oh, it's about vampires! Man I hate having to play hangman with music...
There is some great brilliance behind the album, but it's so scattered from track to track that it's just something you'd have to search hard for. Take some of the heavier, less gothic-laden riffs. Some of the riffs are weighed down and thick that they will automatically remind you of guess who? LOA and Type O. This can be a good thing, but LOA and Type O have done it before and have done it better. The album reminds me of buying ketchup (or catsup) at a grocery store: you're too poor to buy Heinz so you're stuck with Del Monte.
And while their rendition of Metallica's "Jump in the Fire" is good, it isn't necessary and just comes across as filler when listening to the rest of the album.
Regardless, this is still a good album, but disappointing in its being linear. Damn I wish the new Type O album would come out soon.
One word review: Roadrunner?
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