You know that feeling when you see an album cover, and you just sit there knowing that the music inside is going to be bad or at least entertaining? That was my exact thought pattern when I first saw "Indestructible," the third release from the Spanish heavy metal band Metalodon. This lame cover isn't their worst visual offense either - just check out the monstrocity that is their debut LP "Psycho Killer," or their second album, which is straight-up AI-generated. What matters is if the music's good... please be good.

"Indestructible" is a five-song EP and lasts about a half-hour. However, some songs are featured on "Exotica," a full-length album that came out on the same day as this release. I'm not sure about the chronology here, but if I procrastinate the music any longer, I may as well not listen to this. "En mis suenos" starts things off with some AOR vocalizations that are way too cheesy to handle. The instrumentation warps into a power metal-style gallop, and the guitars follow suit. I can go on for years about the over-the-top vocals, especially in the slow segment in the song where the singing doesn't quiet down AT ALL. Who the hell screams over an acoustic passage? Six whole minutes later, and the title track starts. "Indestructible" is indistinguishable from the last track besides the chorus, and that stands for almost every song on this EP. The next three songs, "Tormenta," "Diabolica," and "La guerra," do not provide me enough to talk about, as they rinse and reuse any attributes I've already pointed out.

Let's get one thing straight. I appreciate heavy, speed, and other "light" styles of metal. I may not prefer them to my darling genre (progressive death metal), but I give credit where credit is due. I cannot give credit to Metalodon. They certainly have their moments, like the isolated bass and drum moment in "Indestructible," or the split-second of blast beats in "Tormenta." I simply can't vibe with the helium-induced vocals and subpar mixing. If "Indestructible" (the EP, not the song) came out thirty years ago, I'm sure more people would be boarding the Metalodon train. Unfortunately, I ripped up my ticket when I saw the train's quality.