LIVING COLOUR — Stain (review)

LIVING COLOUR — Stain album cover Album · 1993 · Funk Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Warthur
Like the preceding Time's Up, Living Colour's Stain doesn't quite deliver up a standout song on the level of the anthemic Cult of Personality, and like Time's Up it adds even more thrash metal influence to the band's funk and jazz-tinged metal foundations. In fact, the dial on the harder-edged and darker influences is dialled up enough to elevate the album above Time's Up somewhat - whilst there's no smash hit on there, there's also a substantially higher level of quality overall, and in terms of the heaviness and complexity of the material involved they aren't quite as enamoured of technical complexity as jazz-death outfits like Atheist were at the time, but they wouldn't be embarrassed sharing a stage with them either.
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siLLy puPPy wrote:
more than 2 years ago
I love this one too. Probably one of their best.

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