Ignition Code - Newtek Lie

IgNiTiOn CoDe - This is how the name is written on their facebook page. The term "ARE YOU READY?" was never any funnier then it is right now.

Italy's Ignition Code, 5 dudes who list Meshuggah and Mnemic as influences. I was expecting djent. That's not what I got...

Within the first few moments of the opening track I was pleasured with some "clean" vocals reminiscent of groundbreaking artists such as Five Finger Death Punch and countless amounts of early 2000's Jagermesister Tour nu metal acts. Amazing that stuff like that still happens.

First thing I noticed besides the opening "EEYAAAAAAAHHHH" was the production. Everything sounds like an over produced home recording aka clean recordings with no feel, no texture...just layer on top of layer of dead sound. The snare drum has absolutely no snap to it. It sounds like the snare sample from a Roland 808 put with the high end scooped out and all the punch missing, it's more like a limp wrist. Kick drum is just another a-typical triggered kick. In all actuality, this is probably a drum machine. If that's the case...it still sucks. The past few years have given even the home recording artist the ability to make programmed drums sound like an authentic drummer. Ignition Code is another band claiming they have a bass player. The guitar tone is the same as a billion other modern metalcore bands, except with no bite. The riffs them selves are like a mask of dead flesh from different color people stapled, not sewn, together. Ranging from lame death metal style trem picking, to the vastly over used melodic hammer on's up and down a small quadrant of the fret board. there are a few finger tapped tech-ish parts as well, like a half of a measure of something Fredrick Thorendal would have on his at home riff recordings. These are the home recording files that are sitting in the Recycling Bin/Trash can (depending on platform) on his computers desktop. Don't take it as a compliment. Lots of C tuning cross dressery going on in that department. Those rapsy garbage "clean" vocals are way over used in btween what i am sure is that newer type of "scream". I quote scream because it isn't a scream at all; it's that Melissa Cross DVD instructed false scream. Basically the mic does 90% of the work and you sit there mimicking someone with passion, ferocity and well, a set of pipes that can handle screaming like that. This is the kind of shit bros do at the bar when they are singing along to stuff on the Touch Tunes internet jukebox. There are breakdowns here and there, also uninspired and unoriginal.

The song "M.S.P" has some shit like this at the beginning....'dun ddun dund un "OWWW" dun dun dun dun "OWW". Around the 1:50 mark he goes from quasi tough to bringing some serious Scott Stapp to the mic. This includes that time when Scott Stapp's wife beat on him.....and again at 2:45. I hate my life.

The track "Human B.P.M" starts off with 5 seconds of an almost industrial part....not long enough to brake up the monotony.

This album is WAY too long. Even if I liked it...WAY WAY too long.

This is what's wrong with heavy music. Anyone else remember when metalcore was a completely different genre? I do and I am ashamed to see what it has turned into. 12 years ago these guys would have been a Korn/Disturbed clone. This is what dudes who like metal do when they still want to be able to play at bars where there norm friends hang. The clean parts is what they hope will get them blown after their set. Ignition Code is one of those "gig" bands. If you are not aware of what a gig band is; it is one of those bar bands that talks about their next show as their next "gig". Spoken with attitude because they are headlining a show with 6 other bands no one likes at a local sports bar. There will be 7 girls in the front, all busted waiting for a sweaty metalcore pole to fill them with their equally as talentless semen post gig. Bands that think they are so grea

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