Year Of The Spider [PA] - Cold > Reviews > Cold - Year of the spider

Author's product rating:   

Originality	Definitely a cut above the rest
Lyrics	Thought-provoking
Quality and consistency of tracks	Flawless
How does it compare to the artist's other releases	Good
Value for Money	Excellent

Advantages:	songs are all different,great singer,great band
Disadvantages:	Nothing .  Album is spot on

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Cold have toured with Marylin manson, Godsmack and 3 Doors Down. Cold are from Florida, they formed in 1996.

Cold, a band I came accross simply searching for Grunge bands and these cropped up.
A great find, the songs are fresh and clean but still grungey. All of the songs are powerful and catchy. In a good way, this album I can sit through and love every song. Most bands these days you have one or two songs that are good and the rest are basically rubbish.

It's nice to go back a couple of years (2003)and listen to this kind of music and this kind of band which have something different in every song.
Cold's music like I said is grungey, the guitar riffs are heavy and the voice has so much emotion within it the music and the voice really compliments eachother. Rather than having a screaching shout to kick ass instrumental 'party-in-your-pants' (sorry, it sounded good)

'Suffocate'
'Wasted Years'
'Whatever you became'

Are in my eyes the best songs.

Although this album is their most commercial album, it wasnt too commercial and the songs are fantastic. The songs are great for simply sitting down and feeling your pain through the songs and having a release from it. It eases the heart and mind, not many bands in my eyes can do that apart from bands like ' Muse' whihc.. quite frankly there is not that many. Im not comparing Cold to Muse MUSICALLY wise because they really are two different genre's.

A band I could compare with Cold is.. 'Bush' they are along the same genre so if you have heard Bush and enjoy their music, i strongly recommend Cold.
I paid £13.99 for this album, a bit over-priced but im still happy with it 3 years on. So the price of it now i think is well worth the money. if you can get it cheaper you will really have a fantastic buy.