BUCKETHEAD — Pike 160 - Land Of Miniatures (review)

BUCKETHEAD — Pike 160 - Land Of Miniatures album cover Album · 2015 · Alternative Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
2/5 ·
siLLy puPPy
PIKE 160 - LAND OF MINIATURES is the 59th album released by BUCKETHEAD in 2015. Another PIKE, another instrumental all performed by BUCKETHEAD and another near half hour album clocking in at 28:59 and is divided up by four tracks with the title track taking up more than half of the musical real estate.

The gargantuan title track leads things off with a heavy guitar riff and some synthesized sound effects. Some off time sigs already creeping in but only in a subtle way. Pretty straight forward alternative metal riffing. Kinda goes on and alternates with a cleaner echoey guitar riff. One of those where the riff goes on and on and on but finally some electronica action but doesn’t last long and then the riffing starts back up and goes on and on and on. After minutes of this there comes a solo. Not digging this. Not bad per se but a whole lotta mediocrity goin’ on.

Track two “Loathsome Shape” at 3:19 is another alternative metal rocker only this time we get a cheesy drum machine with it! Well, this is boring. Another repetitive throwaway track with some thrash elements but overall nothing but a repetitive riff with cheesy electronic drums.

Track three “Triceratoptron” at 5:18 runs together with track two and abruptly changes into a more thrashy riff that starts and stops. The drums still sound programmed but the style has turned in their favor slightly, however this has no interesting developments. At the end a solo comes in but at this point who cares! The solos are OMG sizzling but the basic song structure is meh.

Track four “Way Back When” at 4:46 and starts off with a soft echoey guitar at a slow tempo unaccompanied and then is joined by some percussion. Oh no! It’s one of those ridiculously slow and sentimental ballads. I’m so sick of these goddamn things. OK. Here comes the Pink Floydian guitar lines to give it more melodic legitimacy. Actually this isn’t horrible as far as these kinds of tracks go but i’m hardly feeling like i just won the lottery and now own the doggie treat factory.

Another boring PIKE. After two great ones i couldn’t possibly hope for a third so didn’t set my expectations too high. It’s almost like BUCKETHEAD created a giant slunk stack out of all these PIKES only for us to go exploring to find the treasures. Not sure if i feel abused or not but this one despite being played well doesn’t beckon a return visit.
Share this review
more

Review Comments

Post a public comment below | Send private message to the reviewer
Please login to post a shout
No shouts posted yet. Be the first member to do so above!

Review Index

Member Zone

Username:
Password:
Stay signed in

Metal Subgenres

Artists Alpha-index

MMA TOP 5 Metal ALBUMS

Rating by members, ranked by custom algorithm
Albums with 30 ratings and more
Master of Puppets Thrash Metal
METALLICA
Buy this album from our partners
Paranoid Heavy Metal
BLACK SABBATH
Buy this album from our partners
Moving Pictures Hard Rock
RUSH
Buy this album from our partners
Powerslave NWoBHM
IRON MAIDEN
Buy this album from our partners
Rising Heavy Metal
RAINBOW
Buy this album from our partners

New Metal Artists

New Metal Releases

Hin helga kvöl Atmospheric Sludge Metal
SÓLSTAFIR
Buy this album from MMA partners
The Cycles of Suffering Black Metal
BURIAL OATH
Buy this album from MMA partners
The Suns of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion Black Metal
PANZERFAUST
Buy this album from MMA partners
Facilis Descensus Averno Death Metal
SAEVUS FINIS
Buy this album from MMA partners
Merciless Crossover Thrash
BODY COUNT
Buy this album from MMA partners
More new releases

New Metal Online Videos

DAWN OF REVENGE - Sanctuary [official music video]
DAWN OF REVENGE
Bosh66· 5 days ago
DAWN OF REVENGE - Farewell [official music video]
DAWN OF REVENGE
Bosh66· 5 days ago
DAWN OF REVENGE - Curtain of Death - [official music video]
DAWN OF REVENGE
Bosh66· 5 days ago
DAWN OF REVENGE - Vengeance [official music video]
DAWN OF REVENGE
Bosh66· 5 days ago
DAWN OF REVENGE - I Need You [official music video]
DAWN OF REVENGE
Bosh66· 5 days ago
More videos

New MMA Metal Forum Topics

More in the forums

New Site interactions

More...

Latest Metal News

members-submitted

More in the forums

Social Media

Follow us
Follow us on Twitter Become a Facebook fan RSS Feed