Sweden's Cellout have clearly been weaned on Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and Mudvayne with their metal heavy diet leavened with the occasional slice of Korn.
 
'Superstar Protype' opens with 3 hulking, but carefully harmonised and very tuneful  bruisers - 'Dark days', 'All My Demons' and 'The Gift'  - delivered like consecutive body blows, before the mood shifts transparently into 'Flooded', a commercially inclined slab of balladic metal .
 
'Breathe' and 'Fake' are textbook nu metal - both are packed to the rafters with muscle flexing musicianship and piledriving rhythms - strong songs both, delivered with shouty, precision machined industry, but perhaps lacking the melodic inventiveness of the first 4 tracks.
Elsewhere, the band spend their time chasing the groove or surrendering to their thrash temptations.
Fortunately, there's enough good stuff on show to encourage us to anticipate album number 2.

Style: Nu Metal

Rating: 6/10

Posted by Brian - Friday, January 14, 2011



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