Spineshank - Height of Callousness
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Artist: SpineshankEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
Music Label: Roadrunner
Soundtracks:
- Asthmatic
- The Height of Callousness
- Synthetic
- New Disease
- (Can't Be) Fixed
- Cyanide 2600
- Play God
- Malnutrition
- Seamtess
- Negative Space
- Transparent
Free Music Notes for Height of Callousness
Free Music Review: Perfect Fusion
Hit: 5 Stars
THis album is a perfect fusion of metal and techno and solidifys SPINESHANK as one of the greatest most brutal bands out there...It's a shame they've split since there music as a whole is just ebrassive and original. This album breaks the mold of your generic nu-metal sound alike bands and gives you a talented quartet that knows how to make quality music that transends bounderys and stands alone as it's own piece of art. Lets start at the beginning. With the opening track "ASTHMATIC" they start off with a bang...The techno break towards the end shows you where these guys are coming from...the line "I never wanted your help, I never needed your help" is just killer and when chanted at the end will get your blood pumping. Track 2, "THE HIGHT OF CALLOUSNESS" keeps things going in the same direction, killer mix of metal and techno with a brutal chorus. The bridge "F@#$ Integrety" is just awsome..."SYNTHETIC" was the first single off this CD and the reason I bought the CD...shows what this band can do, but also shows that their talent is not only skin deep for the feel to this track is much different then the predesesors. "NEW DISEASE" which is featured on the '1000 miles to Graceland' soundtrack is another in the same vein of Synthetic in that it's not as brutal as most of the other cuts on the album but is still impressive and worth a listion to. Track 5, "CAN'T BE FIXED" was one of my favorites right off bat because of the strong techno beats in the back and what sounds like phasers of lasers or whatever you want to call it going off in the background. "CYANIDE 2600" is the most brutal track here and is my favorite Spineshank song. The chorus is insane and the bridge and the beat is all crazy insane, brutal and just in your face and sounds like the world is coming to an end...It's just perfect. "PLAY GOD" is another perfect song with a killer pre-chorus and an even better end with the words "never take it" being repeated and distorted...it's just freaking awsome. "MALNUTRITION" has one of my favorite verse structures of the entire album. The way it's sung, screamed whatever is the best structure here, but it loses points with the pre-chorus which sounds like something else heard on the album, just not unique enough but they make up for that by breaking into a killer chorus. "SEAMLESS" continues the brutality with a great song with great lyrics and a deffinate unique riffs and a pretty decent chorus, nothing super special but good none-the-less. "NEGATIVE SPACE" is one of the best songs here, and one of the best songs period. It's slower than the rest of the songs here but has an air of power behind it that resonates with me. The chorus "she wasted days inside me" is just hauntingly beautiful is quickly became one of my favorite lines in music history. "TRANSPARENT" was the last track on the original cut of the album and I have to say that for a final track it's dissapointing because it's not memorable...as a track alone it's decent and not to bad, but for the last track of the album it should have been better. Thats why the way to go is with the re-released version with four extra QUALITY tracks. Track 12, the first of the bonus tracks is "PERFECT ENDING" which follows in the feel of Negative Space and stands as one hell of a kick @$$ song with lyrics that stand more powerful than the beat which is fine because the beat, softer and not so in your face only helps the lyrics to stand out greater. "FULL CIRCLE" comes next and steps into the techno moreso than Perfect Ending. I like this track, not as much as others but the chorus is great and the ending sounds like another band that I can't put my finger on, but it shows the versitality and I like that. Next comes "HEIGHT OF CALLOUSNESS (FIST F@#$ INTEGRITY MIX)" and let me say that this kicks so much @$$ it's not even funny. Actually both this and the "ASTHMATIC (PUNCTURED LUNG REMIX)" are so awsome that I wish they would have remixed all of their songs. This is the perfect example of how remixes should be done. On the Asthmatic remix, the whole "I never wanted you help" part is even better if that is possible, and the "F@#$ Integrity" part in Height of Callousness is freaking killer...they just make you want to stand up and throw your fists in the air and scream along. I wish this band never split because with quality releases like this one I would have been a follower for years to come!
Height of Callousness Poster
Look beyond the headline-grabbing shock-rockers and public enemies that populate the thriving sphere of nu metal, and there's an often fascinating legion of young pretenders desperately eager to set the agenda. Spineshank, however, appear to have forgotten that it takes a little more than misanthropic attitude and clunky samplers to spar with an Antichrist Superstar. Sure, The Height of Callousness works the industrial hip-hop template for all it's worth (sometime Rage Against the Machine producer GGGarth works the controls), but with the likes of "New Disease" and "Cyanide 2600" offering precious little content between their clichés, this album begs to be pigeonholed. When this stuff works--see the electrified taboo pantomime of Static X's Wisconsin Death Trip, or the heavy black gothic mass of NIN's The Downward Spiral--it's because there's a splendidly contrary charismatic ringmaster running the whole bleak circus. Here? Well, let's just say that all this negativity isn't making any positives. --Louis PattisonHard Rock & Metal Music CDs
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