Cerebral Noize
Process
2.6
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you mix punk (not hardcore, but punk) and metal into one package? If so, then your prayers have been answered with the creation of Cerebral Noize’s Unprocess. Well, I hope you’re happy now, because this concoction has arrived and I for one don’t like it one bit. Far too often this fusion feels too speratic and forced. In one song you can go from gothic melody to a shout-along type chorus. Take all the generic elements of gothic metal, melodic metal, and punk and this is what you have, thirteen tracks that seem to go absolutely nowhere. Headed up mainly by one man, Cale Burr, (with Steve Egan on bass and various other guest musicians) has average musicianship going on with no instrument ever really out shining the other. Cale Burr’s guitar riffs all follow blandly along with his keyboards and decent drums. Steve Egan’s bass lines are nothing too special and Burr’s vokills don’t really help either. Those too, jump all over the place going from a metal rasp to just straight up shouting with some female gothic singing and male, almost Viking metal style chanting (although done horribly). One could argue I’m being a bit harsh on this, but I could argue you haven’t heard this mish-mash of music gone array. If in some other dimension I become someone who loves punk AND metal, with the attention span of a 2 year-old, and can’t listen to one genre or the other for more than 5 seconds without switching back, then I might begin to enjoy what’s offered here. But since that’s about as likely as me using Fred Durst and “enjoyable music” in the same sentence, I’m not going to hold my breath.
