Koroded - To Have And To Unhold

*=Staff's pick	Zero Minus Zero* Scaretrade Unhold Embers Epigone* God Of Nothingness The Night The Earth Stood Still In Love With Memories With Courage Of Dispair The Good Old Bad Times People Of The Abyss

Genre	Nu Metal	Jan Röder	Vocals
Tracks	11	Andreas Leifeld	Guitar
Runningtime	41 Min.	Frank Fleckenstein	Guitar
Label	Silverdust Records	-	Bass
Release	03 April 2006	Ben Overmann	Drums
Country	Germany	-	Keyboards
Similar artists	Linkin Park

Unfortunatelly, Koroded has a lot of modern metal over their music; American radio rock, post-grunge and nu-metal that is. Funny enough they claim themselves to (with "unbelievable determination") have been able to resist every musical trend. Have you heard that one before…? Like a lot of other modern metal this is for sure musically competent, but at the same time boring as hell, unoriginal and lacks attitude. I can only regret that the last free zone of the true metal, Germany, now finally has been infected by the mighty distributor of manure in the west.

Misunderstand me right, I judge no one by their genre - boring music is boring music. Koroded mixes growl and some rap with clean rock vocals. The music is closer to melodic than to brutal. There are some moments - instrumentally, but the singer has a tendency to make you sleepy. Zero Minus Zero sounds a bit like Soilwork and Epigon has a few good passages. When it comes to the grade it would be unfair with a total diss, but the title tells you what will happen with this record after this review.

Production	Vocals	Compositions
5	4	5

Summary
5 chalices of 10 - David