Ironiclast Graverobber The Damned Things? Who would have thought the culmination of members from two metal bands and an alternative rock band would form a supergroup with southern rock-n-roll intentions?
Certainly not me. Nevertheless, with such overall quality musicians yes — even the Fall Out Boy members you would expect something great. And unfortunately, Ironiclast falls short from the admittedly high standards. Ironiclast definitely delivers on its intentions: to be a southern rock-n-roll album. And god damn does he do it well. Keith is easily the highlight of Ironiclast because everything he seems to touch turns to gold. Hell, the title of the album is pretty fucking witty to me.
Sure, he bought some band shirts, but he is wearing Slipknot instead of Necrophagist. You know what? Fuck that analogy. It sucks and I should be hung. If anything, its existence is only to enhance Keith which is fine by me — and yes, I have a hard on for him. An absence of bass and drowned guitars really make things harder to hear than they should be, especially when things get wanky and crazy.
Huge choruses? Sometimes there, sometimes not as much. Great metal guitar? From time to time. Standout vocals? I can't honestly check that off the list. That's one of the downfalls of the record: It's been neutered.
Most of these songs, the verses sound like they're around to fill space from chorus to chorus. I don't remember the song until the chorus kicks in. And some of the choruses are forgettable, too. Or I want to forget them well, I want to forget all of track seven, "Little Darling". The jury's still out on that matter. There's a classic rock approach to the album in that there's some killer riffs and the singing is almost always clean. This would be fine were it not Keith Buckley.
And maybe that's the real issue here. Everyone here is talented, but they aren't used to their full effect. It's sad. There's a lot of promise here, but after time, the album gets grating.
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