12/1/2022 0 Comments Mushroomhead a wonderful life![]() ![]() "The Flood" or "Where The End Begins" sound like backing tracks that are never built upon the band mixed the ingredients together and serve you up the raw, uncooked songs as the final product. Many of the songs start and suddenly step back into the background as they play, as if they have stage fright and do not wish to be the centre of attention as they play out. Tracks like "Pulse" and "11th Hour" seem like needless tangents to nowhere, and if you're a 'It's not the destination but the journey' type of thinker then I'm afraid you're just as out of luck the journey is just as tedious. There is making up for lost time and then there is overload choosing quantity over quality, you are left with an album with so many dull moments your patience will wear thin quickly. The few times the band alter this approach or offer up a track of enough quality for you to overlook this pattern is often swallowed up by the sheer scale of the album at two minutes shy of an hour, like looking for needles in a haystack. The overuse of the loud/quiet structure leaves the album feeling very predictable and monotonous. Those who have stuck around since will be disappointed that the album is not a patch on The Righteous & The Butterfly it has the potential but not the realization of said potential. Where the band felt fresh back in their Superbuick days, the world has moved on while Mushroomhead sound dated and sterile now. A Wonderful Life re-cements the band's position as one of the most consistently impactful heavy bands of our generation.ġ.1 A Reqiuem for Tomorrow 1.2 Madness Within 1.3 Seen It All 1.4 The Heresy 1.5 What a Shame 1.6 Pulse 1.7 Carry On 1.8 The Time Has Come 1.9 11th Hour 1.10 I Am the One 1.11 The Flood 1.12 Where the End Begins 1.13 Confutatis 1.14 To the Front 1.15 Sound of Destruction 1.16 Another Ghost 1.2020 is playing a cruel joke on humanity surely? With many bands delaying albums, Mushroomhead step in to fill the void, with their first album in six years providing a distraction from world events by changing the conversation from horrendous topics to questions like "are they still going?".Ī Wonderful Life is a mostly boring affair it is to metal what Imagine Dragons is to indie: dull and repetitive, something you will tire of in short order. Mushroomhead attacks track after track with a refreshed focus, delivering a carefully-curated selection of certified future hits. The band shifts into high gear with introductory track "A Requiem For Tomorrow", beginning with an ominous Latin choral piece and juxtaposing heavy industrial-inspired grooves with melodic synths. ![]() Mushroomhead make their prodigious return with A Wonderful Life, the Cleveland collective's eighth release of their benchmark career. ![]() For the better part of the past five years, top-charting masked metal machine Mushroomhead have been crafting the epic follow up to their monumental 2014 full-length album, The Righteous & The Butterfly - waiting patiently to drop their next collection of anthems. Limited deluxe edition includes bonus tracks. ![]()
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