![]() It was definitely a missed opportunity to not get Griffin Taylor on “Mad”, but the guy he did get does a decent enough job at channeling older Slipknot. Bonitz feels quite a bit more restrained than he does in Tallah, but he’s got enough talent that it helps mask some of that. ![]() They’re going for a Korn-esque delivery on this one, and for the most part it feels like a hybrid between them and Linkin Park. Still, there is a silver lining here “Primal” is headed vocally by the aforementioned Justin Bonitz, and is far and away the best moment on this compilation. “Moan” doesn’t even come close to matching Stephen Carpenter’s thick guitar tones in much of Deftones’ discography, and while I get they weren’t trying to 1:1 match everything, the mixing here leaves a lot to be desired. While that isn’t a problem in and of itself, the lack of dynamic in the drum mix is distracting. The drums on here all sound the same, but that’s mostly a consequence of whatever drum sampler Nik Nocturnal’s using here it’s very clear that these are programmed. The mixing is quite uneven at times “Nein” (which if you haven’t already guessed, is a Rammstein sounding song) is mixed a good 10 dB below everything else and sounds ridiculous being so quiet amongst the rest. Thankfully, everything else is at least passable in comparison. It’s astonishing how bad this sounds, and Dickie Allen just sounds obnoxious. The absolute nadir of this project is the attempt at doing a Lorna Shore song in “Pain”. Victor Borba did his best, but it’s not like he was given a lot to work with. “Soul Eternal” is supposed to be a take on the entire discography of Bring Me the Horizon, and it really just sounds like a rejected cut from Sempiternal overall. After listening to all of this, I almost wish these WERE just covers, and the ultimate takeaway I had was the following: just listen to the original bands on a playlist instead.įirst we have the Sleep Token-lite “Worship” opening the album, and it pretty much sounds like what people who hate Sleep Token think they sound like everything’s haphazardly thrown together, and guest vocalist Cameron Humphrey’s attempt at channeling Vessel’s signature warbly affect just sounds weird, especially considering he sounds a lot better when he’s doing his own thing, like on the closer “Moan” which is supposedly meant to be a Deftones song. That comes with a cost though the writing here feels extremely half-baked. ![]() ![]() Unlike Anthony Vincent of Ten Second Songs’ fame, Nik is just writing wholly original cuts, whereas Vincent was taking existing songs and warping them into other artists’ styles, so it’s different than just outright being a cover act. He’s also gotten into the whole “write a bunch of songs in other bands’ styles” that other metal/rock channels like Ten Second Songs have done, to some success his fans have been requesting full versions of the songs he was writing on Twitch streams.Ĭontext is necessary here, because that’s exactly what the How to Metal series is primed to be effectively channeling the styles of 10 or so bands and consolidating it all into its own thing. Nik Nocturnal really needs no introduction if you’re aware of his channel, but if not, he’s another one of those “metal” YouTubers that reacts to memes, does things like “Try Not to Headbang” challenges, what have you. So in a way, it’s like he’s going back to his roots and doing collaborations with other YouTubers. 1 here Justin Bonitz, who was mostly known as Hungry Lights, went on to have a lot of success with one of the spearheads of the nu metal revival in Tallah, has a vocal feature on this. Hell - just look at some of the people featured in the tracklist of How to Metal, Vol. YouTube sensations going on to have successful careers in music is nothing new. Review Summary: Just listen to the original bands instead
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