Height Of Callousness, The (Limited Edition) - Spineshank

I fist heard of spine shank when I saw the video to synthetic on T.V. since then I have become possessed by this bands incredible music and Thats what this op is all about……….. Spine shanks music is nu-metal/Heavy metal. It is really quite hard to say what type of music it is exactly because its not heavy metal like slipknot, its not metal like fear factory and its not nu-metal like papa roach its like a mix of all types of metal ...
...is noisy and loud. Which I think is great, but I’m sure all of you older ciaoers out there would disagree with me. The vocals in the album are very good. The balance is just right between singing and screaming. All the words are sung in a kind of long dreary voice followed by screaming and various other moaning and groaning noises. I think all the vocals fit in quite nicely with the music. The backing vocals in some of the songs are screamed ...

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Review of Height Of Callousness, The (Limited Edition) - Spineshank

'The Height Of Calousness' was the first reward that I claimed from "i-points.co.uk". It arrived after five days, so that's a well done to "101cd.com". When I first listened to it I wasn't that impressed, I had heard 'Synthetic' and 'New Disease' on the TV and I liked them, but it wasn't as good as I had been expecting. However, when I got home from school, I listened to it again, it seemed to be better (or maybe I was just listening more carefully ...
...with your lies" <02>The Height Of Callousness-"Drown the truth out until it all makes sense again" <03>Synthetic-"I have become synthetic" <04>New Disease-"Denial is all that's left now" <05>(Can't be) Fixed-"I can't be fixed" <06>Cyanide 2600-"Turn it on when it fits your needs" <07>Play God-"You're only dangerous to what is weak" <08>Malnutrition-"The contradictions you live have cancelled out the truth" <09>Seamless-"Everything inside ...

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Review of Height Of Callousness, The (Limited Edition) - Spineshank

This album was released before I even knew it, and being a fan of the first album "Strictly Diesel" I was ecstatic when my friend simply produced it from his pocket. Needless to say I borrowed it from him but was in absolutely no way prepared for the onslaught that was to follow as soon as it was placed in my CD player. Thirty seconds into track 1, "Asthmatic", my jaw was already on the floor...I knew i was going to love this album. The style of ...
...better - a more refined, confident sound without losing what fundamentally made the band in the first album. This album really is a relentless stream of ferocity from start to end, containing some fantastic tracks like the immensely catchy "New Disease" and "Synthetic", which will have you screaming along to the chorus every time. The closing tracks "Negative Space" and "Transparent" are the album's lyrical highlights, not to mention that they are ...

pestilence_gj 06.08.2001 · Read full review
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...buy their new album "the height of callousness". not a bad descision seeing how the album explodes with power and force out of any speakers. the first song, "asthmatic", is so incredibly mettally and fast, it really is a good song to kick the album off. the album is then followed by song after song of glorious headbanging metal. YEAH!!! with such great songs as "seamless", "(can't be) fixed", "play god" and "malnutrition", it must be said that this ...
...only one song on the album, that i feel is lacking in what the rest of the albums songs have and that is "cyanide 2000". but thats my view and you may keep a different one. the inlay isnt that special, but it doesnt need to be since the music removes your attention from it. unfourtunately i can not compare it with their previous release however and so i cant say how it compares but, the album is overall actually incredibly good and so i highly ...

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...mixture of songs on 'The Height of Callousness', they range from heavy, like 'Play God' or 'Height of Callousness', to slightly softer and melodic songs like 'New Diesease' and 'Negative Space'. But all the songs except one are really really good! The one song which I do not like is 'Cyanide', it is very crap. It is a fast song with dodgy vocals. This is the only downfall of the album which I really do adore. You should go out and buy this! ...

Impey 09.02.2001 (22.02.2001) · Read full review
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Review of Height Of Callousness, The (Limited Edition) - Spineshank

I have to confess I had never heard of SpineShank before I bought this Album, but now I can say I am a fan of them. SpineShank are like a cross between Linkin Park & Slipknot. So if you are fan of either of those two bands you will surely like SpineShank. The album itself is quite short it only has 11 Tracks, and an overall length of about 38mins. But this does not take any quality away from the album, the songs are great. I particularly recommend ...

Kelvan 28.05.2001 · Read full review
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Put CD in player, press play, jaw hits ground. Oh my, oh my, former substandard 'Deftones with samples' clones, Spineshank have turned in one of the most brutally heavy and quite simply best albums of this year so far. Previous album Strictly Diesel was, in all honesty, pants. The band seems to have finally lived up to the short term hype that surrounded that album. This is a truly stunning piece of work mixing up Deftones, Fear Factory, Killing ...
...and original. Gggarth's production helps the band to really show how good they are, now letting the excellent loops and synth work come to the fore. If Linkin Park are a little bit too boy band or rappy for your tastes then get this instead, aw hell, just buy the damn thing anyway, it's that good. ...

Ariel 14.05.2001 · Read full review
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...my opinion improved it. This would be a wise choice for anyone that likes loud brash music. It is a very good choice with such amazing tracks as Synthetic, New disease and Height of Callousness. I would highly recommend this to you if you are a fan of Fear Factory. ...

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