GRAVITY KILLS — Gravity Kills (review)

GRAVITY KILLS — Gravity Kills album cover Album · 1996 · Industrial Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
2.5/5 ·
Warthur
The 1990s wasn't exactly short of acts trying to hop on the industrial rock bandwagon kicked off by the likes of Skinny Puppy, Ministry, and Nine Inch Nails, but the debut album by Gravity Kills is a particularly blatant example. Take a mid-tier Nine Inch Nails album, strip away anything atmospheric or adventurous so you are left only with the most commercially-oriented and cliched songs, stuff in more industrial rock cliches to fill out the gaps, and swap out Trent Reznor's vocals for vocals by someone who's audibly struggling to sound like Trent.

Guilty is catchy - as it should be, it's the song which landed them their record deal in the first place - but the rest is just a rote attempt to rehash that, which was itself a rote attempt to rehash one of NIN's simpler efforts. Worth it only if you have very intense nostalgia for this musical era, but even then you'll probably find listening to this makes you think "meh, Trent did it better" and throw on the Broken EP instead.
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