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Album Details
- Artist: United Nations
- Album: United Nations
- Label: Eyeball
- Year of Release: 2008
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- Reviewed by: hstisgod on 2008-11-11
RecommendLooking for scorching, absolutely face melting all genrefied metal? The United Nations are here to protect you from any kind of normalcy. Let's start with No Sympathy For A Sinking Ship. Wow this a fantastic molding for Metal's future. I felt ganged up on after listening to this song. Brutal Punk pacing with Metal distortion, volume and explosions. These guys have made a terrific record of various forms of rock n roll and what its evolved into. Not at all times should you expect blood curdling, vein popping vocals. Some of these songs Jekyl and Hyde, see track four The Shape Of Punk That Never Came. Another example of various influences being used is Subliminal Testing which has a unique mix of Grindcore. In a very predictive world of wheezy Emo, and truant bar Rock, United Nations are breathing new life into music.
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on 2008-11-17 kev_stev Said:
I didn't know this was reviewed! Here's mine anyway:
Fans of Thursday and Glassjaw highly anticipated the self-titled first release from the self-proclaimed emo-power-violence supergroup, United Nations, whose members, outside of Geoff Rickley (lead singer of Thursday) and Daryl Palumbo (lead singer of Glassjaw) are still officially unnamed. United Nations is an unbridled fury of emotion, where the songs are mostly short and unadorned, showing that United Nations wants to relentlessly rock out without any baggage.
If Thursday had embraced their heavier side after Full Collapse, they would have released United Nations rather than War All the Time. United Nations is unrelenting and unapologetic, revealed immediately in the propulsive opener, The Spinning Heart of the Yo-Yo Lobby, where Rickley and co. exclaim, Fuck you!, a shocking expletive from a man who has tackled heavy issues without profane language. From its opener, United Nations unravels: the drums pound and the guitars grate in an album where the breakdowns are aplenty. On songs like Resolution #9, the roars of Palumbo shred over screeching guitars, covering heavier ground than Waiting or Full Collapse could ever tackle. But six or seven tracks in, United Nations starts to grow repetitive, which isnt totally surprising; on an album where every song is heavily impassioned, the intention of the album begins to impede on its structural integritycreating heavy music often leads to a formulaic output.
Evidently not wanting to keep a more-of-the-same model, United Nations slow the tempo of their album down on its seventh song, Filmed in front of a Live Studio Audience, where acoustics are introduced and sadder sentiments pervade, where the screams begin to sound more like melancholic outcries than hostile condemnations. This variance keeps the album interesting and works best on the closer, Say Goodbye to General Figment of the USS Imagination, where United Nations screams and electric outbursts fizzle out as guitars and drums play behind a bluesy saxophone soloa surprising, yet fitting end, to an untraditional album.
Rating: 8/10
