Undertow - Milgram

*=Staff's pick	In Stomping Out Ignorance* Two Fingers Hateriot Homemade Funeral Crawler Buried In Snow Always Have Always Will This Is The Worst Day… Since Yesterday D-Mood* Out

Genre	Nu Metal	Joachim Baschin	Vocals
Tracks	11	Joachim Baschin	Guitar
Runningtime	46 Min.	-	Guitar
Label	Silverdust Records	Thomas Jentsch	Bass
Release	27 March 2006	Rainer Pflanz	Drums
Country	Germany	-	Keyboards
Similar artists	Linkin Park, Nickelback

A kind of grey cover and a Fred Durst-lookalike on vocals tells me that there is something new and awful that is about to attack me. But at first I am about to reconsider those prejudices. Stomping Out Ignorance sounds more like The Haunted than Limp Bizkit, so to speak. It's a piece of quite catchy modern thrash. But then Undertow falls into a more expected zombie metal. Two Fingers and Hateriot are not at all as fun as the first track. On Homemade Funeral the lack of tempo really starts to be a burden for the record. It is heavy, it has some melody to it but it lacks some fucking raw attitude. Crawler goes slightly faster, which is welcome.

On Always Have Always Will (no, not an Ace Of Base cover) I am smelling the American Nickelback charts rock. In other words, not that fun at all. D-Mood comes as a relief in the last minute, as a fast thrash song. A bit too late to save the whole record though. It never becomes more interesting than the first track Stomping Out Ignorance. Joachim "Fred Durst" Baschin has a quite dull guttural voice by the way. Undertow are not living up to their German heritage.

Production	Vocals	Compositions
6	4	5

Summary
5 chalices of 10 - David