X-Hells - Subterranean Stories
Lucifer Rising
Nu Metal
9 songs (40:22)
Release year: 2002
Reviewed by Jay
Crap of the month

I will put it bluntly; this album sucks. There is nothing redeeming about the X-Hells first attempt at an album. This album has been classified as Thrash on other sites. I cannot see why. This album is noise organized into a mish-mosh of semi-coherent gabble. The X-Hells took all the bad aspects of Mudvayne and amplified them to a new extreme. The guitar has so many effects on it, it sounds like it’s being played through mud. While some of the solos do sound decent, you’d be hard pressed to find one that sounded good with all the layers of effects that bury the sound. The synth samples that pervade the whole album only detract. The singer’s voice consists of yelps, out of tune “singing” and otherwise vocal effected rubbish.

Starting off with “Theatre of Pain,” I expected a Motley Crue homage. My hopes were dashed quickly. There is a bad attempt at the unusual time signature playing that Mudvayne uses but they can’t pull it off. The vocals are incoherent shouts that are completely out of key. The guitars sound like mud and the bass is mixed excessively high and overshadow everything else. The bass player is playing higher notes and it sounds like it’s bouncing all over the place. “Dreams of Hate” is the same formulaic crap. As is just about every song on this pathetic excuse for an album. All the riffs are open strings being played exactly like Nu metal. No complex patterns, no interesting and metal riffing. There is nothing redeeming about this album. A review this long already gives this album more respect than it deserves.

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