SIX FEET UNDER


True Carnage (Full)
11 tracks - playing time: 34:15 min.
Nuclear Blast
Rating: 3/10
 
The big question - will Six Feet Under be able to deliver an album that sounds better than their horrible cover album Graveyard Classics? The answer: yes, and no. Seriously. How can this band not realize that in the last years they have became a parody of themselves, an unintended parody that is. How can this band not realize that putting out the same bland, mediocre songs time after time is _not_ what anyone is waiting for? But while the music is still mediocre, Chris Barnes` vocals are just downright ANNOYING. His once impressive grunt has changed to throat-cancer style mumbling, with no intonation or atmosphere. And to make things worse, every now and then on this album he feels the need to add high-pitched vocals to the songs. High-pitched in this case meaning the sound a mouse would make if it got stuck in Chris Barnes` ass. But then, perhaps they realized this all too well, and tried to improve this bad effort by having Ice-T singing along on one of the tracks ("One Bullet Left").

Cool, very cool. That is, if you are a 12-year old kid impressed by somebody saying `fuck` at least 10 times a`sentence. Everybody else will just figure out that he`s an annoying wanker with nothing to say, put in there by the record company to boost sales a little higher (higher than what, _zero_?). I would gladly give this piece of crap a well-deserved zero points, if it weren`t for three things that gave a bit of conciliation: track 4, "The Murderers", is actually pretty cool. Then, on "Sick And Twisted" the dreadlocked Karyn Crisis does a dual-vocal attack with Barnes, proving she`d be better suited to replace him than assist him. And the CD extra bonus, a video to "The Day The Dead Walked" is pretty cool, although with the sound off you might be mistaken for watching a Rob Zombie video. Still: three rays of hope on this otherwise piece of shit, giving it a grand total of 3.0 out of 10.

(Xander)

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