Pain Tolerance - A Momentary Act Of Disclosure
Independent Release - 16/10/04
By Patrick Walsh
You know you're in for a rough ride when the PR blurb openly admits the band's main influences are Staind, Cold and Korn. Which wouldn't be so bad if they had even attempted to create something new from them, but unfortunately A Momentary Act of Disclosure is little short of a direct plagiarisation of Korn.
The opening bars of 'Just Go' immediately set alarm bells ringing with it's Korn-esque chug-along riff, but it's only when vocalist/guitarist David G. Peterson opens his gullet and the mother of all Jonathan Davis impersonators pours from the speakers like a camel's breath up my nostrils. Peterson doesn't even bother trying to sound remotely individual, and settles for some sub-Davis whines and shouts, and the lyrics don't help matters at all, reading like something written by a fourteen year old adolescent who had just been dumped by his first girlfriend. I'd almost feel sorry for them if it wasn't for the fact that the alt. metal scene has spent the last eight years purging itself of tripe like this, rendering Pain Tolerance's existence completely pointless and unnecessary.
The demise of nu-metal took longer than it should have, and few of its staples even remain together, so for a band to emerge that attempts to revive what was essentially the cock-rock equivalent of the 90s is simply unforgivable. Granted, this is an independent release from a group who are no doubt still finding their feet, but they would do a much greater service to their peers' legacies by creating something at least tries to be original. Substandard nu-metal with no business going anywhere in 2004.
1/10
Official Pain Tolerance website
Independent Release - 16/10/04
By Patrick Walsh
You know you're in for a rough ride when the PR blurb openly admits the band's main influences are Staind, Cold and Korn. Which wouldn't be so bad if they had even attempted to create something new from them, but unfortunately A Momentary Act of Disclosure is little short of a direct plagiarisation of Korn.
The opening bars of 'Just Go' immediately set alarm bells ringing with it's Korn-esque chug-along riff, but it's only when vocalist/guitarist David G. Peterson opens his gullet and the mother of all Jonathan Davis impersonators pours from the speakers like a camel's breath up my nostrils. Peterson doesn't even bother trying to sound remotely individual, and settles for some sub-Davis whines and shouts, and the lyrics don't help matters at all, reading like something written by a fourteen year old adolescent who had just been dumped by his first girlfriend. I'd almost feel sorry for them if it wasn't for the fact that the alt. metal scene has spent the last eight years purging itself of tripe like this, rendering Pain Tolerance's existence completely pointless and unnecessary.
The demise of nu-metal took longer than it should have, and few of its staples even remain together, so for a band to emerge that attempts to revive what was essentially the cock-rock equivalent of the 90s is simply unforgivable. Granted, this is an independent release from a group who are no doubt still finding their feet, but they would do a much greater service to their peers' legacies by creating something at least tries to be original. Substandard nu-metal with no business going anywhere in 2004.
1/10
Official Pain Tolerance website
