Metalgear
Cybertron
[independent]


I got this just because Metal Gear is my favorite Nintendo game (hail the original Nintendo!) and the Transformers rock. Well, I'd rather have diarrhea than listen to this anymore. It's so damn bad. While I am a fan of some of the most unlistenable vocals (Enchantment, Living Sacrifice), I can't stand badly-done death vocals, such as the kind displayed here. Imagine Burton Bell's dry-throat stuff at the beginning of "Martyr" but one hundred times worse. The use of a drum machine doesn't do much to help this either. I'll go ahead and say it now: Mortician is the only band that's really good with a drum machine. After Mortician got the slightest bit of recognition, every band on the fucking planet started using a drum machine. You know what? Most of them suck at it! This includes Metalgear. Nay, Metalgear is the king of shittily-used drum machines. The guy could've at least had lyrics about Transformers or Metal Gear, but no. . . The only redeeming factor of this 7" is that it can be enjoyed (like laughed at even more) at 33 RPM.


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