Of Hopes and Ashes - Anamnesia

Description: Artist: Anamnesia / Genre: Hard Rock & Metal / Release Year: 2006

Newest Review: ... it doesn't descend quite as far as that. The oddest thing about this album is just how poorly recorded it sounds, which ... more

... perhaps explains why it's available for free from websites. Bebeche's guitar has a nice crunch to it and produces some quite good groove riffs, but Alex's drums are far too quiet and Damien's vocals, by contrast, far too loud in the mix. His singing style is rooted in American hard rock but freely moves between clean singing and slight growling in the style of Korn rather than death metal, but any time he gets enthusiastic, it causes significant feedback in the microphone. The whole thing is like listening to a badly rec...more

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Of Hopes and Ashes - Anamnesia: It's Free, But It Stinks (371 words)
by - written on 15/01/08 (Very useful, 28 readings)
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This low-budget debut album from French rock band Anamnesia is pretty disappointing, based entirely in the so-called "nu-metal" sound that had fickle rock kids all excited for a few years in the late nineties to early zero-zeros. It brings nothing new to the already overpopulated and dire genre, and seems to take its cues from all of those bands like Korn, Disturbed, Drowning Pool and whatever else was around the time of rap-metal, though fortunately it doesn't descend quite as far as that. The oddest thing about this album is just how poorly recorded it sounds, which perhaps explains why it's available for free from websites. Bebeche's guitar has a ... Read the complete review