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First
impressions are damn important. You can never overestimate the
effect that a bad beginning might have on our opinion of the end
product. Really, the first seconds of an album are as important
as the hooks, the choruses and the closing two songs from a
twelve song recording. We are looking at the whole package here,
not isolating songs and judging them on that basis. I guess it
doesn’t matter here though. Not when we are talking about Dutch
band Disturbing Foresight, whose album De-Grunged had me
wishing the first song was just an unhappy accident. A fucking
mistake that would have no repercussion on the overall sound of
the album. Unfortunately, I was wrong. Very fucking wrong. The
label describes itself as punk metal and hardcore merchants. By
the time I got to the second song “Brainless Brian” I was kind
of thinking they should add the ‘nu metal’ sub-genre. Or the
even more unfortunate ‘rap metal’.
Somewhere I
read that Disturbing Foresights’s played crossover. I know I
just saw that somewhere online. But the first two songs in this
album don’t give that idea away by any means. Instead, all we
get are tepid guitars, sloppy drumming and some of the most
inept rapping/singing I’ve heard in my life. A fucking tragedy
man! “Positive” does have some of that early crossover quality,
but that’s mostly because the tempo is hectic and the vocals are
almost like spoken on the same rapid fashion of early DRI.
Disturbing Foresights would have been wise to stick to that
plan, instead, they get somewhat funky with “Shadow”.
The material
in this record sounds more dated than fluorescent Bermuda
shorts. Which isn’t all that surprising when we discover that
Disturbing Foresights broke up in 1996. But that’s no excuse.
Even by that horrible and forgettable decade of nu metal
standards Disturbing Foresights sounds mediocre. If anything,
De-Grunged
serves as a stark reminder of those terrible times for music
that some deity willing shall hopefully never experience a
revival.
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