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If you like Klank check out 54 a new band featuring Pat and John from the Still Suffering incantation of Klank.http://www.soundclick.com/bands/54_music.html
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/54.htm Featuring former Klank members
[addition to this comment a few months later:]
Former Klank members return with new project.
Pat and John formerly of Klank have a new project with hip-hop producer Taiwan Green A.K.A. Mr.Fingaz. 54 aims to create a new sound blending elements that are melded together to become cutting edge.Their sound has many layers of influence from the beats of underground hip-hop to the introspection of indie rock, from the heaviness of Sabbath to the gentleness of John Coltrane. The band is named to re-live the vibe of famous dance club, Studio 54.
The guys have written about 15 songs, and cite everyone from Pedro the Lion to Filter as influences. Mr.Fingaz has most recently worked with Fabulous and Busta Rymes. mp3's at http://www.soundclick.com/bands/2/54.htm
(reviewed by Robert Grazer)
Ladies and gentlemen listen up because this may be the only time you hear me say this. Still Suffering is a good newmetal album. Why? I dunno. I’m guessing if any big newmetal fans have actually heard this they’ll say it is no different from any other albums from that little genre, yet for some reason or another this one works really well. “Downside” is a great rocker that doesn’t let up, and manages to be pretty freaky throughout. Lyrically it’s a hopeless look at our society that doesn’t impress me all that much, but oh well. “Burning” actually has a melody on the verses and another freaky atmosphere on the chorus. “Scarified” rocks HARD, almost as if it was a zero talent speed thrash song. The first side closer, “Deceived” is yet another freaky and depressing song. Or at least that is what it tries to be. I’m really not afraid to go to bed with album playing at all.
“Disease” comes out as the high point on the whole thing, the freakiest of them all with some crazy very deep background voices in the back saying like “The world I know exists merely as a shadow,” similar to others on the album like “In my world there is no end to pain.” Morbid, a little cheesy, and still pretty entertaining. “Leave” has got great vocal melodies, including a short doom like part with really Paramaecium style vocals. “Wooden Soul” is another fast song for a closer, with a nice little beat going for it. So I guess done correctly with the right atmosphere and good beats and times the next phase of heavy metal can come out pretty good. What a surprise.
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(reviewed by Robert Grazer)
Still Suffering may have had a few industrial influences and hints here or there (most notably on "Downside"), but Klank's second release is industrial to the core, and some very bad industrial at that. There's all sorts of crazy electronic drums and techno-metal style beats, I wonder where the mood of the music went. I mean I get annoyed with songs like "Penetrate" or "Blind" before the ten-second mark arrives. On other places like the title track the lyrics become laughable. "Please tell me why everyone in the world has to be like you." Where did the plain old dark and dumb go? This is not dark and is worse than just dumb; it's completely idiotic. "Don't Like" tries to be another "Scarified," but you can imagine how pathetic the result is. Closing Numb are two mixes, a "Ghetto Party Mix" and a "Dark India Mix," both of which really suck. There wasn't any crap like that on Still Suffering!
A couple of highlights include decent moments in "No Answers/No Reasons," (a passable chorus, but it sounds to similar in style to the chorus of Limp Bizkit's "No Sex" from Significant Other, although the lyrics on this one are hardly that bad), the steady pure rocking "So Very Real," (with not a bit of that electronic crap to be found!) and "Bleed Me Dry," which is probably the closest thing to the band's original style to be found on here. Even so there are too many techno and electronic noises to call it a successful song. The chorus is catchy, but there's only so far catchiness can take you. Numb was a terrible direction to head in after releasing Still Suffering, and only receives half of the debut's score.
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