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Band Name: Bloodshot
Demo Title: Demons, Addictions, & Confidence Band Members: Chris Moran: bass; Greg Elizondo: guitars; Rob Hussey: drums, additional bass, and guitars; Mike Hussey: lead vocals, backing vocals; Tim Dever: guitars, death vocals Location: Las Vegas, Nevada |
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Jotun's Review:
No sooner than I reviewed a demo that surprisingly showed some promise than I get one that shows little to none. The title of this demo itself - Demons, Addictions, & Confidence - should warrant a long, hard self-examination by the band.Overall, the structure of all these songs is blatantly simple it actually hurts. Occasionally there is a reasonably interesting bridge or something, but it's almost consistently basic and tedious. The vocals sound like a combination of raw Seattle sound (like Layne Staley on "Blunt Force Trauma") meets a mix of Trent Reznor and Al Jourgensen impressionism. They're monotone much of the time and they are disgustingly overproduced, like the rest of the music is. It gets to the point that the music almost sounds digital, like I'm listening to a bad Web feed. Everything has effects on it to the point that it would weigh a ton if the music were tangible (that means something you can touch, guys).
The lyrics are hardly inspiring one way or another - whether that is the inspiration to destroy or the inspiration to correct the ills of society. Instead, they sound like the rantings of an adolescent. Take "Flatline" for instance: "It's like this I hate everybody, everything, everywhere. So save your prayer 'cause I just don't care. I'll fucking jump in front of a bus, don't give a fuck. 'Cause my dial is set to self destruct."
According to their press release, the band was together only two months before they recorded, produced, and distributed this demo. Two months sounds like a good amount of time to write and record 11 quality tracks, right? I went to their Web site while I was suffering through the disc to see if I could find any redeeming value there, but the only things that were interesting were a link to 80s video game downloads and one pic that wasn't even of the band. It was titled "devilwoman.jpg" and it was a computer graphic illustration of a naked, female, nipple-pierced baphomet. But I guess they don't know much about a baphomet, other than the fact that they're cool and they're really "metal".
All the shows listed on their site are ones in their hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada, on Friday or Saturday nights. Good thing, cause we don't want to keep the white trash teens up on a school night. They don't even list a neighboring town, which, at the very least, would begin to make me skeptical of their Internet chart-topping material. This fact also emphasizes their status as a local bar band and their need for full-time employment to supplement their musical hobby. I picture their only fans being girlfriends laden in cheap leather and 80s metal T-shirts or a bunch of old metal tools with mullets getting drunk on cheap beer and walking into people who'd much rather they just go away. One way or another, these bars most likely invite them for their thirsty crowd. Maybe they are nice guys too, which I won't insist otherwise, but they sure as hell aren't invited because they're the next big thing.
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