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RELEASE: Gravity_Kills-Gravity_Kills-1996-DeBT_iNT
ARTIST: Gravity Kills
ALBUM: Gravity Kills
GENRE: Industrial
BITRATE: VBR
SIZE: 57,0 MB
ENCODER: Lame 3.97
RIP DATE: 2010-02-08
STREET DATE: 1996-03-12
LABEL: TVT Records
TRACKS: 11
MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/gravitykillsband
[TRACK LIST]
01 01:31 Forward
02 04:02 Guilty
03 04:35 Blame
04 04:10 Down
05 04:17 Here
06 04:16 Enough
07 02:53 Inside
08 03:12 Goodbye
09 03:10 Never
10 03:08 Last
11 03:53 Hold
39:07 min TOTAL PLAYTIME
DESCRIPTION: The debut effort from St. Louis industrial rock band Gravity Kills
delivers an ample mix of crunching guitars, pounding drum loops, layered
synthesizers, and vocals that escalate from intense whispers to raging screams.
With its themes of alienation, hopelessness, and regret, the album resembles the
abrasive tone of its first single "Guilty," the song that initially brought the
band together to record when a St. Louis radio station was looking for tracks to
include on a compilation project. "Guilty" gained popularity through extensive
radio airplay in both the U.S. and Canada, quickly bringing industry attention to
the four-piece. Along with this success came the pressure to record and release a
full-length album. In 1995, the band signed with TVT Records and released Gravity
Kills a year later. Throughout the album's 11 tracks, the band's sound rings a
bit too familiar. It closely resembles that of a handful of other industrial
rock acts, due in part to the influence of co-producer John Fryer (Nine Inch Nails,
Stabbing Westward, Filter, White Zombie). Unfortunately, where the album is rich
in production, it falls short on melody and originality. This isn't to say that
melodies have been completely forgotten, but those that can be detected often
seem recycled and are obstructed by a muddied layer of samples and atmospherics.
Throughout the program, it seems that the band is using studio wizardry to
over-compensate for lackluster songwriting. Although Gravity Kills starts off with
a bang, sounds soon begin to run together and it gets increasingly difficult to
discern where one song ends and another begins. Overall, the album is a moderately
satisfying affair. While it succeeds in delivering a convincible sense of raw
emotion and a good dose of angst-ridden metallic guitars, repeated listens would
prove to be more enjoyable if the band had put more of an effort into their
songwriting and less into programming and production tricks.
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the very definition of slavery."
-Jonathan Swift
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