LIFE OF AGONY — Broken Valley (review)

LIFE OF AGONY — Broken Valley album cover Album · 2005 · Alternative Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
2/5 ·
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Easily the worst LOA album. In terms of lyricism, it has far more substance than the terrible post-grunge music that was rampant during 2005, but at times the vocals and instrumentation are clearly mimicking it. I can only assume this was due to the creative influence of their new record label Epic, aka the most mainstream, cookie-cutter record label in existence. The real disappointing aspect though is that nothing about this album is aggressive at all. The riffs and vocals are just too restrained for my liking. Most of the ballad type songs are pretty boring too, with maybe one or two exceptions.

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UMUR wrote:
more than 2 years ago
I enjoy this one quite a bit. It´s about 200% better than the predecessor.

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