SOiL - stub review added 5th December 2008
Album Review: Scars (2001)
For fans of: alternative metal... and vocals that can melt steel
Has any vocalist ever sounded so loud on record? Ryan McCombs, as a boy, must have swallowed a 30,000 watt megaphone and a small nuclear power station to run it. He's only an ickle thing but sounds like an avalanche having a fight with a thunderstorm. He sounds even louder live. I heard him in Southern England once. He was playing Dallas at the time.
This is one of those records with a few excellent tracks and a few, er, not so excellent tracks. 'Breaking Me Down', 'Halo' and the monstrously heavy 'Wide Open' are awesome. The rest of the album has its moments, none of which last the length of a song. There is plenty of tuneful heaviness and phat bass. Most of it suffers from a lack of character and doesn't stick in the mind.
An album of two halves. It's all worth a listen, although the first few songs are considerably better than the rest.
Check out... The heaviness of 'Wide Open' and the volume of that singer's gob. Both will leave you breathless.
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