ZONE


Die Alone
8 tracks - playing time: 30:56 min.
(none)
Rating: 4.5/10
 
It is 2004, is it? Wait, I’ll check it. Yes, my calendar says ‘it’s 2004’, my phone says ’es ist 2004’ (German brand). Ok, if it’s 2004, why are there still bands who are thinking that it’s 2000. Like Zone. Let me refresh your memory: 2000. Sydney, 12 gold medals. 2000: millennium. No one died. 2000: Nu-metal hype. And as you have probably guessed: the last thing matters in this review. Nu-metal. That is where Zone stands for. But it is too 2000. This kind of music is done more often than Jenna James did her job in some kind of movie.

It is cliché after cliché after cliché (repeat this 400 times). The titles: “Identity”, “Die alone”, “Break All Hope Down”, “Help Me” are a perfect example of infantile pseudo-puberal feelings. ‘the whole world hates me and I hate the world’, you know that kind of feeling you probably had when you were 12.


These guys are not 12, but more like 20+. How can you still make this kind of lyrics/titles? Unbelievable. And they’re Dutch, so they must have at least heard of Nu-metal and the fall of it.

They compare their music with Chimaira, Skinlab, Fear Factory, Machine Head and Ill Nino. Maybe, but Chimaira, Fear Factory and Machine Head operate from a higher skill level. Ill Nino comparisons are pretty in the right direction, they also make some simplistic childish music. It does not have the aggression of Skinlab, it does not have the catchy yet brutal lines from Chimaira, and it does not have the power of Machine Head and the speed of Fear Factory.

Totally shit. Absolutely nothing. It even irritates me. They save a few points for the production.

(Friso)

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