Artist: Goddass
Title: My Beautiful Sin
Type: E.P.
Label: Firefield Records
Every now and then, a band turns up that not only knocks you for six right from the first listen, but also has the potential to redefine the very face of rock and metal as we know it. Far more common however, is the cheap knock off ‘scene’ band, and unfortunately Goddass is the very latest of the melodycore mob to waste valuable shelf space in the metal section of your local record shop, with this, their debut album, ‘My Beautiful Sin’. The trouble with all these bands is that very rarely are they actually bad, just utterly dull.
Now firstly, I have to say, I really do try and see the good in these bands. When Killswitch Engage first arrived on the scene, I thought they sounded like a breath of fresh air. Now that air has been forever polluted by a thousand bands all doing exactly the same thing. Take a very accomplished guitarist and make him play the same 2 or 3 riffs, a decent drummer, and make him blast away monotonously, and someone to scream some reasonably incomprehensible verses before crooning a ‘powerful and melodic’ chorus, usually about how upset he is that some woman doesn’t love him, and who can blame her really? Goddass are absolutely no exception, and listening to this you could quite easily be fooled into thinking you’re listening to a new Atreyu or Bullet for my Valentine album.
There is one thing that sets Goddass apart from the rest though, and that is the lyrics. Throughout, this proved to be the most entertaining thing by far for me. Goddass are an Italian band that sing in English, which is fine. Many Italian bands do that, Lacuna Coil and Allhelluja being prime examples but here I’m guessing that it was all written in Italian and then translated into English through Babelfish! Lines such as “I don’t know since that you did the same, I don’t know hear the word in that way” from ‘Never and Over’, and “I know it, all is done. I hope that keep fall it has gone. Can I despise? (I fail)”, from ‘Hide in Pieces’, would almost certainly come across better in their native Italian. It would at the very least have provided some originality. I always try to find some redeeming feature in everything I listen to, some way to recommend it, but with ‘My Beautiful Sin’, I’m drawing a blank. It’s horrible. Truly and utterly horrible.
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Lee Kimber
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