Chris Connelly - Artificial Madness - review
Chris Connelly - Artificial Madness - review
Tracklist
01. Artificial Madness02. Wait For Amateur
03. Classically Wounded
04. Cold Blood In Present Company
05. Compatibility
06. The Modern Swine
07. Imperfect Star
08. The Paraffin Hearts
09. The Subjects
10. The Goner
11. A Career In Falsehood
A review by
Doc G. November 17, 2011
For one thing, this ex-Ministry member actually supplies some aspects of quality if your not into the whole message-outweighing-performance thing. The guitar work is actually incredibly solid, making Artificial Madness the decent listen that it is. In fact, Chris Connelly's consistently flat, monotonous vocals seem utterly unnecessary. Why, You ask? Well, even if the man's vocals are sleep-inducing most of the time, at least he can recognize some great musicians, bringing in guitarists from the likes of Nachtmystium, Wolves In The Throne Room, and Indian (just to name a few) to lay down some riffs. It's hard tell whether these guests are actually playing all that great, or they just stand out over the unexciting backdrop of Artificial Madness, but they really shine through.
At its best, Artificial Madness is a depressive hard rock album with some interesting, pop-infused guitar melodies put through some kind of rough, bleak strainer (Blake Judd, is that you?) At its worst, it's an aimless, rambling display of pretentiousness. To be fair, Chris Connelly does make an attempt at singing the vocal parts from time to time, he's just got an incredibly unmoving voice at the best of times.
With a few changes, this could have easily been a pretty neat instrumental album. Instead, we have an ok album which seems to be more focused on the artist than the art.
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Posts: 2466 Quote: Sounds awesome. Checking this out, even if the entire album only has 3-4 good songs in this vein, I'll be moderately pleased.
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This album sounds nothing like Lulu and the comparison is a complete miss. Artificial Madness is simply a very decent post-punk release and a return to the sort of music Chris has been making back in the 80s and early 90s. An enjoyable release from one of the godfathers of industrial metal.
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