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Midnight Sin - Sex First review



Reviewer:
3.9

2 users:
4.5
Band: Midnight Sin
Album: Sex First
Release date: October 2014


01. Snake Eyes
02. Midnight Revolution
03. Feed Me With Lies
04. No Matter
05. 'Till It's All Gone Away
06. You Piss Me Off
07. Rise & Yell
08. Code: 69
09. 2 Words
10. Sweet Pain

Good lord. Sleaze metal revival? Are we actually still doing this? Ugh. Midnight Sin, if this album ever had any value, it's about a decade past it's "best before" date.

Glam/sleaze rock/metal revival was a fun little musical movement while it lasted. We got a few solid albums out of it: Hardcore Superstar's Dreamin' In A Casket and Crashdïet's Rest In Sleaze, just to name a couple. Hardcore Superstar fizzled out in both buzz and quality, while Crashdïet have been chasing their own tails since the death of Dave Lepard. With the downhill slide of those two heavyweight bands, so has the movement.

It was a party.

It was a blast.

Parties end.

Are Midnight Sin going to inject new life into this dying sound? You can bet your balls they won't. What made the revival actually listenable in the first place was it was a modern adaptation of an old sound. This...this is just sad. Sex First...Music second? Yeah, Probably. This band strikes me as some sort of vessel for the members to get laid, rather than any sort of legitimate musical entity, which probably isn't too far of a stretch. Maybe I'm not much of an artist, but I can't see any sort of profound inspiration being the driving force behind this garbage. Even if it was released at the peak of the sleaze-revival, I couldn't see Sex First being anything remarkable. This sounds like music written by horny fifteen-year-olds.

As far as the sound goes? It's pretty much what you'd expect; some lazy cross between Crashdïet and Buckcherry. Recycled garbage made from already recycled material. Think of The Human Centipede put into musical form, and guess who are the poor saps at the end of that fecal conga-line? That's right! We are! Yay!

There's only so many ways you can say "meh" in one review. Let's end it before this whole thing just becomes undiluted excrement word-play.





Written on 18.09.2014 by Former EIC. Now just a reviewer guy.


Comments

Comments: 7   Visited by: 177 users
18.09.2014 - 17:53
barnesy

Back in high school I was really into this shit. . . but that was twenty years ago and even then it begun to wear on me. I haven't even heard this band, but I've read the review and I can tell you without any experience in their music- you're right on Doc. This style is like the dinosaurs. Somehow these guys survived after the meteor hit and they just need to lie down and die.
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18.09.2014 - 18:08
Ilham
Giant robot
Sorry Doc, shoudln't it be "inject new life" instead of "enject"? I bet you didn't want to spend too much time proofreading yourself, it must have been painful enough to write it .
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18.09.2014 - 20:07
Andrew_Deer
None,really
Oh... ... the vocalist's name is Albert Fish. Is that even funny? I think not. -- Or is it by accident? "What should be good and suitable name, Mrs. Fish?" "What about Albert? Other kids will love that and his wife too!"

Btw. my name's Albert, too... But I'm NOT Fish... I don't even like fish... (My surname could be translated as "Hastened")
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18.09.2014 - 22:26
Rating: 3
Doc G.
Full Grown Hoser
Written by Ilham on 18.09.2014 at 18:08

Sorry Doc, shoudln't it be "inject new life" instead of "enject"? I bet you didn't want to spend too much time proofreading yourself, it must have been painful enough to write it .

I generally re-read things a number of times before posting. In fact, I distinctly remember changing that exact word to the proper spelling...I wonder how it got through again...
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19.09.2014 - 02:33
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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19.09.2014 - 23:30
Malignar

Oh my this is bad. I listen to Crashdiet "Rest in Sleaze" all the time it's great, but this...
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20.09.2014 - 10:07
Rating: 3
Doc G.
Full Grown Hoser
Written by Malignar on 19.09.2014 at 23:30

Oh my this is bad. I listen to Crashdiet "Rest in Sleaze" all the time it's great, but this...

Yeah, I made sure to name-drop that album in the review as a positive note, just so people don't think I was all-out genre-bashing. I loved the whole sleaze-metal revival when it started 10 years ago, there were a number of fun, fresh sounding albums released. However, that being said I think it should be put to bed again, maybe dug up when it can be reworked the way it did a decade ago.
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"I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck."
- George Carlin
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