It’s been some time since we heard from Canadian industrial
\nrockers Fueled By Ignorance, who last appeared here in February
\n1999 with their debut CD
\nTears<\/i>. I went back and read the review I wrote for that CD,
\nand compared notes to what I heard on the group’s latest release
\nWidow<\/i>. (Memo to vocalist Simon Springer: Man, so sorry it’s
\ntaking me this long to get to the disc. My bad.)<\/p>\n
With a solidified lineup (bassist Jay Christopherson, who
\nreplaced the late Todd Wickstrom, is the only change in the band
\nfrom
\nTears<\/i>) and a more focused approach to the music, Fueled By
\nIgnorance take the power and angst that bands such as Marilyn
\nManson and Nine Inch Nails once embodied (before they realized it
\nwas cool to be miserable and then overproduced to the hilt) and
\nknock out a pretty good effort.<\/p>\n
I complained about this before, and I’m gonna complain about it
\nagain with
\nWidow<\/i>: this disc is too goddamned short! Especially when you
\ntake into effect that the listener really finds themselves getting
\ninto the groove that the band – Christopherson, Springer, guitarist
\nAdrian Castley and drummer Shawn Gairdner – lay down, it feels like
\nthe rug is being yanked away far too soon.<\/p>\n
The only other suggestion I’d make to the band (that is, before
\nwe get on to the praise) would be this: don’t put all your faith in
\nthe E major chord. I like crunch, to be sure, but I also like
\nvariety, and it often seemed like I was staring down E chord after
\nE chord in the songs. Just a suggestion.<\/p>\n
All griping and nit-picking aside,
\nWidow<\/i> features some very good industrial-laden metal which
\nshould make fans of the genre wonder why some label hasn’t picked
\nup the phone and taken a chance on these guys yet. (From everything
\nI’ve been reading, they’ve been getting some good breaks… just
\nnot
\nthe<\/i> break yet.) Songs like “In The Dusk Of December,” “Told
\nYou Twice” and the title track all suggest that this group has
\ngrown into their shoes well in the past two years, and could be
\nprimed to make a big noise for themselves.<\/p>\n
\nWidow<\/i> is proof that a band can go through some of the
\nhardest times and still make a strong recorded effort. Maybe, if
\nthings go right for everyone, the next time we hear from Fueled By
\nIgnorance they’ll be sending me their major label debut… and it
\nwill be a full-length effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6511],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-36931","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-fueled-by-ignorance","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36931"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=36931"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=36931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}