All Ends - EP

This is not a review on Road To Depression album, but on a kind of EP/ teaser CD, featuring only two compositions. All Ends is band once started as a project of In Flames’ guitar duo, who later on continued not along.

Generation’s Disgrace and Nobody’s Story are the two compositions extracted from the Road To Depression, their last album. The band is self defined as an alternative metal band. In any case, their melodic heavy metal is reinforced by the vocal front, a female duo. As for the two compositions, these are diametrically different from one another. The first one,     Generation’s Disgrace, is a heavy metal track, quite melodic, burdened with keyboards and all. The other one, Nobody’s Story, is a conventional ballad, an attempt to shape a melancholic ambience. Plainly, both songs are extremely banal. Two different musical approaches leading to the same result, a breed, devoid of inspiration, targeting only to one’s ephemeral needs. In other words, no inspirational remnants survive this popish/ mainstream cascade. The ballad actually sounds as a fail attempt to create a melancholic atmosphere, it’s a vehicle of emotions broken down.

  The production and sound are quite clear. Technically, the band is poor. Nothing attracts attention, and the duo’s singing performance comes really close to “uninteresting”/ “common”’s definition. Lyrically, the band is equally indifferent. The two songs offer nothing new to the listener/ reader, and especially Generation’s Disgrace exemplifies what a writer should avoid (repetition, “bad” language in order to fill the inspirational gap/ to modernize an attitude).

In a way, this totally uninspired “teaser” renders the band part of the generation’s disgrace that feels the necessity to stigmatize. The only reservation I hold is that the sample may not be representative. That aside, All Ends is a band to be avoided.

4/10   Stelios(Ω)