Pop Evil – What Remains

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• Band:
  Pop evil
• Duration: 00:34:35
• Available from: 21/03/2025
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• Mnrk Heavy

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“What will remain of these pop Evil”: In paraphrase an old local song, we could also answer “Not much, in the annals of music”but nevertheless we must recognize the merit of being among the greatest exponents of the 'Walmart Metal', that is, that type of jaw hard rock not too demanding – cynically, we could call it 'US music' music – to listen to in the background while shopping or in the weight room.
In the last twenty years, the Michigan band has consolidated its formula made of mighty rhythms and ficcanti melodies, capable of immediately entering the head, however, also broadcasting a beautiful blow of energy: where the previous “skeletons” played so powerful but a little too stereotyped, this time vice versa Leigh Kakaty and its numerous collaborators – as well as in the best producers – They are data to do to raise the bar, returning to the levels of “Versatile” (album of four years ago).
The initial brace, “When Bullets Miss” and “Deathwalk”, immediately shows off the muscles with a hard rock full of steroids thanks also to the production of Cody Quistad (now more affirmed in the role of producer than guitarist of the Wage War) and electronic chroming: all formally perfect, as well as “Zero to None”, even if songs of this type are overlapping with myriads of myriads of myriads Other bands that dominate the overseas FM radios.
The distinctive feature of Pop Evil is, vice versa, the ability to combine rhythmic power even a more refined pop sensitivity than the average of the genre, as clearly emerges in the central part of the tracklist: traces such as the title-track, “Wishful Thinking”, “Side effects” or “Criminal” allow Kakaty to fully show off its tonal melodic in the bearing stanzas and not only Tippeards, however, keeping more Heavy breaks to ensure the right dose of adrenaline.
Net of some lightening of too much – “Knife for the Butcher”, despite the title, is nothing more than the umpteenth variation on the pop rock theme of the Imagine Dragons – “What remin” flows well until the end, closing in beauty in a reference to the electronic ecolage of the fever 333 (“ENOUGH is wine”) and an anabolic version of the Nickelbacks of the Nickelbacks (“Overkill”).
For lovers of Modern Hard Rock, a less explosive album than the artwork on the cover suggests but still pleasant.

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