Integrity - Thee DestroyORR
This is just one of those bands that will never go away until the members are finally dead. I don’t want to make it sound as if I’m not a fan at all. I proudly own Humanity Is the Devil and Seasons in the Size of Days, both great albums from the mid-’90s that still sound great today. It’s just that.. well… check this band’s discography out on Wikipedia sometime when you get the chance. Even with the compilation tracks subtracted it’s still uncountable. You can have too much of a good thing, let alone a mediocre thing. Here I’d thought this band had called it quits for awhile. Judging by what I’ve heard recently, including this new album, it’s writing quality songs that they quit doing. This album sounds like it was recorded live and, oops, someone forgot to mic the drums. Unless they want you to only hear the drums when the guitars aren’t distorted. You never know, some people really want you to think they’re crazy, or different, or both, or that they just don’t give a fuck (see album title). They do, trust me. You don’t release 37 recordings per year solely for your own enjoyment. Even if this didn’t sound like it was recorded at a truck stop bathroom, not much here would be salvageable. “Sermon Thirteen” and track 5 (the name of the song, much like the album title, too stupid to type) are the only songs I can actually remember, but that’s just because they were gayer than the rest. One is spoken word to some kind of hippie jam band music, the other is just noise filler, and again, this is the standout material. The rest is a balance of Crusty and Sludgy Hardcore so unmemorable and dull that I momentarily forgot who I was listening to. So, yeah, go check out Humanity Is the Devil and Seasons in the Size of Days, leave this one on the shelf. It wwas extremeLEE PAINfull to sit THReww.
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