Violence

by

Nothingface

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Nothingface will cut into your wrists then lick the wound close. The band can perform many different forms of metal and rock, On just this album alone. Though they bring it all together to make their own original genre which I've heard Matt Holt call "Metal of The Wretched". I don't consider Nothingface Nu Metal, They are beyond most Nu Metal bands skills! With Bill Gaal putting down incredible bass lines and keyboard melodies. Tom Maxwell shredding up headbang worthy riffs and rememorable rhythm that will bw stuck in your head for days to pass. Then theres Matt Holt, Which happens to be one of my fav singers, His Death Metal like growls are clean enough to understand, and his actual singing.. Is amazing, Clean voiced and powerful. The lyrics are personal "You know its hard to face you, When I know what you did.. Your sorry. Stay far away from you, Im sick and tired of you too. But theres the way you move, Dressed up in lies, Beds in truth" for instance. The one thing thats stands out above all is that this album was the last that drummer Chris Houck played on!Infact both Chris and new drummer Tommy Sickles played on this one, whom did which songs.. I have no clue but the drumming is excellent through out this album and brings the music together.

SONG RATING

-Make Your Own Bones ***** Good N' Heavy right off the get go. Very good opening song, Giving you a taste of Nothingface's originality

-Bleeder ****** Amazing!! This is a stand out song on Violence, The Vocals are very melodic and the lyrics will get stuck in your head!

-Same Solution ***** Brutal pummeling, The lyrics wickedly talk of murder & killing you. This song shows how brutal and heavy the band gets.

-For All The Sin ****** This is easily one of my favs on the album, With clean vocals through out of what seems to me a Cheating Relationship.

-Can't Wait For Violence ****** This mixes Nothingfaces Brutal & Calm styles well! Making one amazing song. This is a MUST HEAR!!

-Dead Like Me ****** This is a very melodic and dark song. The lyrics are depressing, But yet done very well. The Vocal work is excellent.

-Blue Skin ***** The reason I give this five stars not six is cause the lyrics lack here. Though this is easily the best Bass line on the album!!

-Filthy ****** Another stand out song. The band really come together on this one. My fav vocals & lyrics on the album. Very Melodic Very Dark.

-Hidden Hands ****** This is a VERY intelligent song, Both lyrically and musically. Matt uses both his Clean and Death Metal vocals.

-American Love ***** Brutal, But with melodic breaks. This song is also about murder and killing.

-Everlasting Godstopper ******* My fav song on the album, This is about god holding you back. And the suffering of the world by him.

-Piss & Vinegar ****** A brutal finish to a great album, This song really shows where they went to musically after Violence.

All an all, Nothingfaces Violence is not for your average Nu Metaler only but for avid metalers as well. On another note I can't help but see the similairities between Nothingfaces style and Mudvaynes. And seeing how Mudvayne happens to be friends of Nothingface its easy to say they might have rubbed off on each other musically. Get this album, Even if your a bit skeptical of the Nu Metal undertones.. You'll thank me in the end.

With all the hype surrounding the newest Nothingface CD, I had to find out for myself how good it was. I'm not really that impressed to be honest. This is a very average CD. Sure it is pretty heavy, and it has some aggressive songs on it, but nothing really stands out on it. Yes, the vocals during the heaviest moments are pretty sick, and the guitarist does write some groovy rythms, but it has been done many times before.

I guess this would fall under the "nu-metal" catagory, one of the latest trends in music I am not too big on. I am a traditional metal listener, I listen to everything from "old-school" Metallica to Napalm Death and Cannibal Corpse. One of the reasons I do not really care for nu-metal is because most of the bands in the genre think that two-chords makes a very heavy song. Now wait, before you fly off the handle, Nothingface do know more than two-chords. I was impressed by this guitarist to be honest with you, but it wasn't all that. Then when the vocalist starts to "sing" I found myself kind of wincing in pain. He doesn't exactly have the vocal capability to sing too cleanly. So all in all this CD does not impress me that much.

Call me old fasioned, but this new groovy metal thing just doesn't do it for me. Sure I did like Machine Head's "Burn My Eyes" debut and a few others, but I prefer my metal straight out pit slammin, aggressive, violent, and brutal (by the way, this CD is not brutal in the least, whoever said that needs to find out what brutal really is, it isn't this). L8r