So I got the two newest Killwhitneydead CDs on Friday since they had to ship them before leaving for tour. This year they released two CDs at the same time: Nothing Less, Nothing More and Hell To Pay. The Hell To Pay album was only available for pre-order and will not be shipped after Nothing Less, Nothing More drops on June 5th 2007.
Both albums have the signature KWD sound however, there’s something new some of you haven’t heard before: The Demonstration. They are a fellow Tribunal Records member along with KWD and are the actually band behind KWD as of last year. This gives the entire music a completely new dynamic. While still retaining the old KWD sound of brutal death metal intermixed with grindcore, progressive, and power metal elements, The Demonstration bring a whole new aspect to the already complex mix of music that KWD play. Now the music has a strong technical death metal feel along with the usual movie/TV samples and Matt’s scratchy guttural screams. While not having the same sound — or sheer brutality — as previous albums such as So Pretty, So Plastic or Inhaling the Breath of a Bullet, it does have a very fleshed out sound that doesn’t normally come from a band that’s been playing together for a little over a year.
I love both CDs simply because I love KWD however, I feel that Hell To Pay is the much stronger CD. It has more of the classic sound and feel where as NLNM is definitely a new direction musically. I will be reviewing both CDs shortly but I’ve got to listen to them a little more!
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the demonstration kicks ass. INHALING THE BREATH OF A BULLET kicked ass. KWD is fun, but this new stuff, sadly enough, is only fun when i’m drunk. I’ve tried so hard to enjoy it. I’ll be spending my days back on the very first cd unless some girl putting this in tells me it makes her very very horny.
I definitely know alot of bands who aren’t progressing anywhere near as well as KWD or The Demonstration, regardless of how I personally feel about the new stuff.
I’m not at all surprised by the new sound. Having met both bands last year and talked with the guys in The Demonstration at some length about their musical interests, I figured the albums would be less in-your-face brutality than previous CDs but I didn’t expect this at all. Everything is well produced as always, thanks to Jamie King and Matt, but all in all the albums feel kind of put together and miss the old KWD feel.
Although, Hell to Pay is much more like earlier KWD than NLNM is.
Disappointed with the power metal vocals on the second to last song on NLNM…they are not at all up to the high standard set by their spiritual predecessors on Never Good Enough For You and So Pretty, So Plastic…Other than that, the two albums fucking rock.
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