I’ve always had a taste for the harder side of music, so when an
\nacquaintance recommended the band Spineshank, I promptly headed out
\nto the nearst music supplier and bought Spineshanks’ first album
\nStrictly Diesel<\/i>, released in 1998 on Roadrunner Records.
\nUpon first listen, I was not impressed. Harsh drum beats, power
\nchord guitar riffs and electronic bleeps add a certain something to
\nthe general feel of this powerhouse quartet, but this album as a
\nwhole hasn’t jumped out at me as THE underground metal album of the
\ncurrent era.<\/p>\n
Granted this does seem to be an experimental album for the band,
\nand from the research I’ve done on the band, there wasn’t a single
\nreleased from the album that was really pushed. They had a few
\nsmall mentions in
\nKerrang!<\/i> magazine but they quickly fell into the melee of
\nanother one of “those” bands. Jonny Santos’ vocals are of the
\nquality that switching quickly and constantly from gutteral
\nscreaming and howling to full-vocaled note-holding without so much
\nas a crack, but Santo’s vocals are drowned out by Souren “Mike”
\nSarkisyan’s Guitar riffs. The perfect tone in the songs seems the
\ncomplimenting bass riffs dealt out by Rob Garcia, and harmonize
\nwith the guitar and vocals brilliantly. Tom Decker’s drum fills and
\nelectronic sampling add the perfect amount of new-age-feel to the
\nmusic, which in itself separates it from the mass of bands trying
\nto make it big in recent years in this genre.<\/p>\n
The most powerful song on the album is “Where We Fall”, and
\nprobably the only one I’ll so much as tap my foot along to. Santos’
\nvocals dominate the song, and as well they should. There’s minimal
\ngutteral wailing, and more flowing straight-from-the-stomach
\nsinging, which is certainly what I appreciate most. “Where We Fall”
\nstands out from the rest of the songs, the guitars are different
\nfrom the average three-power-chord songs and the lyrics are about
\nsomeone else for a change, instead of describing how black the
\nlyricist always feels inside.<\/p>\n
The worst song is Spineshank’s rendition of “While My Guitar
\nGently Weeps”. I assure you, there is no gentle weeping happening
\nin this cover, they might as well have renamed the classic Beatles
\ntune “While My Cat Painfully Dies”. The song is a disgrace to the
\noriginal, and has gone beyond experimentation, it’s just pure
\nbrutality.<\/p>\n
Are Spineshank likely to become a top ten of hard-metal? Not
\nlikely, unless they learned a hard lesson from the feedback of the
\nrelease of
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