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Band Name: Dry Kill Logic
Album Name: Of Vengeance and Violence
Rating: 4 / 5 User Rating: 4.4 / 5
Label: Repossession Records
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Tracklist
1. L5
2. My Dying Heart
3. 4039
4. Caught In A Storm
5. From Victim To Killer
6. Boneyard
7. Kingdom Of The Blind
8. Dead Mans Eyes
9. Confidence vs Consequence
10. Breaking The Broken
11. Lying Through Your Teeth
12. In Memoria
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Call them nu-metal, call them metalcore (though they might kick your ass), either way you can't deny that Dry Kill Logic is a pretty damn good band. Though the band's sound does have a hint of the currently popular metalcore sound, and maybe a dash of nu-metal, Dry Kill Logic are certainly not a bandwagon act, especially considering that it originally formed in 1993. It really got noticed however around 1999 when it was touring with acts like Coal Chamber, Incubus, and System of a Down, which is where the nu-metal label comes from. Now Dry Kill Logic is releasing its third full-length album 'Of Vengeance and Violence' on Repossession Records and is out on the road once again defying classification and kicking ass.
'Of Vengeance and Violence' is a metal album, plain and simple. You can give it all the fancy names you want but ultimately that's what it is. There are a few hooks here and there during the chorus but mainly you have shredding, angry, fast-paced metal music in the vein of Pantera or Slayer. There is a ballad on the album called 'Kingdom of the Blind', which features a 'Cemetery Gates' inspired guitar intro/outro (meaningful, squealing lead guitar) and a Tool–esqu heavy undertone. Also the last track 'In Memoria' is an acoustic ballad that is, dare I say it, pretty and emotional. It really shows you that there is solid song writing underneath the aggressive pounding of the other songs on the album. The rest of the album however is totally mosh worth, thrashing metal. Tracks like the opening song 'My Dying Heart', which actually comes after a minuet long guitar squeal intro track, have a double bass pedal lead rhythm section, hardcore style verses complete with shouted vocals and a somewhat catchy/some what heavy chorus.
Dry Kill Logic is definitely one of the bands that is keeping metal alive after the lull in the 90's, if that makes them 'nu-metal' then so be it, but that would make any band that came out post-Korn a 'nu-metal' band and that is where genre classification can get a little fuzzy. Lets forget the labels and just call Dry Kill Logic a damn good metal band and leave it at that.
Review by: Colette Claire
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