Thoughtscanning
We All Die (Laughing)
Sometimes, there are some bands that abuses of our patience, even using the label "Avant-Garde Progressive Metal" (holy fuck, can someone stop those genre creators?), with works that could put bovines with insomnia problems to sleep deeply. And the French duo WE ALL DIE (LAUGHING) really did a boring work with their first album, "Thoughtscanning".
Bad? Not at all. I can hear a band that know who to play good music, with good vocals, fine guitar riffs, bass and drums getting along the way they must. But only one track, lasting 33 minutes? A whole album with one song?
Of course in Metal history you can find bands using this idea, like VENOM's "At War With Satan", MANOWAR's "Achilles", EDGE OF SANITY's "Crimson" and few others, but all of them full of variations of tempos and moments, but here the depressive atmosphere is almost constant, with some changes of rhythm, of course (if it wouldn't be this way, I believe the musicians would not endure in this way). It's not bad, I say again, but it's boring. Ol' Big Daddy here hates to say this way (in respect for bands works), but why do such a thing? Couldn't break it in, at least, to four songs?
Good sound production, placing all musical instruments in their places, nothing to say about the sound, but as I said above, it can't save the album.
But keep in mind one thing: the band isn't bad, not a lost, for even having one song, "Thoughtscan", it shows a band with talent after all. But they must learn the difference between being high-spirited and reckless.
But to the fans of the band, who'll love the album (of course they'll gather some of them, that will call your dear writer of some names my mother wouldn't like), the digital copy of it got a version for AMY WINEHOUSE song "Back to Black".
You can do better than this guys, so, hands at work.
5 / 10
Mediocre
"Thoughtscanning" Track-listing:
1. Thoughtscan
We All Die (Laughing) Lineup:
Arnaud Strobl - Vocals
Déhà - All Instruments, Vocals
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