### Primary Slave: Another mark is drawn

#### 06/03/12 || gk

There’s a tragic story behind this album. Turns out the band leader wrote these songs and recorded rough versions but died in a motorcycle accident before he could get the band together. Fortunately, a former band member and an ex-producer painstakingly put together these songs and released it is as Primary Slave’s second album. The band profile calls this music “futuristic cyber metal” and it’s a description that really should have died with the 90’s. Anyway, when I saw it, the 90’s kid in me thought it might be something like Front Line Assembly’s “Millennium”. Not even close. What we have here is some Linkin Park meets Limp Bizkit nu-metal. Some lame attempts at rapping, a whiny singing voice that sounds a bit worse than that dude from Linkin Park, riffs that even Fred Durst would have the good sense to reject and overall this is some really shitty music. I’m trying very hard not to speak ill of the dead but with music like this, it’s really hard. There’s nothing here that I like and I’m not sure how to rate it. The polite, well mannered kid in me is feeling guilty at the thought of giving this a zero. This would have been really futuristic in the 80’s but today it just sounds embarrassing.

1/10 for that Bollywood sounding melody on C.R.E.A.M.