Point Blank
    I don't like to sound elitist, but listening to Point Blank has convinced me that there is an 'underclass' of heavy metal. This 'underclass' seems designed exclusively for dickheads who want to seem metal and be angry about something. Nailbomb makes me angry because they suck so badly.
    Firstly, the drawcard for Nailbomb was the involvement of Max Cavalera (Sepultura, Soulfly), but there is absolutely nothing in common between Point Blank and, say, Beneath the Remains. You say that Cavalera is broadening his horizons? Not when the riffs on Point Blank are possibly lazier than Limp Bizkit and the lyrics abysmally childish. There is nothing that a hardcore, metal, metalcore, death metal or nu-metal fan could appreciate from this release. It's just bad. So Max, broadening your horizons is no excuse.
    Secondly, looking at the cover excited me at the prospect of something political and confronting. Not only is this not particularly confronting musically, but lyrically the songs contain absolutely no meaning whatsoever. Even on a mundane emotional level, there is nothing here but 'angry metalhead' cliches that become tiresome after the first track.
    Thirdly, I know album booklets don't strictly speaking come within the domain of album reviews, but the Point Blank is so ridiculously pretentious that I feel any prospective buyer should have warning. Paying out Sinead O'Connor, deliberately using incorrect grammar to be funny, writing "1000000% Hate" and filling the lyrics section with pictures that imply political rebellion without any politics in the music is just not cool! It's lucky that the music is so shit, because if it hadn't been then the booklet would have spoilt it anyway.
    Forthly, with involvement from Sepultura members Igor and Andreas, as well as Fear Factory's Dino Cazares on drums for track 3, I espected to hear some guitar solos or some cool drumming. Instead, the drumming here sounds basically like a drum machine the whole way through (which is a bad idea), and the guitar solos are just out of tune exercises in how to emulate distortion from one's amplifier.
    I could just keep on going, but even reducing myself to writing a review of Point Blank is making me angry. This is not music, this is crap. Next time you wipe your ass, watch out - you might accidentally discover another Nailbomb album.