Now, IвЂ™m not going to start on a rant revolving around the key ideas of вЂњ this is dated materialвЂќ and вЂњ weвЂ™ve heard this all beforeвЂќ like many of the negative reviews do for bands like this because, well, we have indeed heard it before thatвЂ™s pretty much a given. Yes, itвЂ™s everything you had simmering in the confinements of your mind seven or eight years ago, a time when this kind of music was really popular and pretty successful.

They pack the distortion on their four-chord riffs meaty and dense, feeding the anger, the hurt, and the resentment of every cheating girl or lying boy that ever had the nerve to walk into, and subsequently out of, your life. The Michigan based four-player are as subtle as a brick in the face and as movable as your dadвЂ™s вЂ™73 Dodge Monaco thatвЂ™s parked out in the backyard rap-rock angst pulses and steams across speakers like thereвЂ™s no knob to turn down the volume. Persistent, arenвЂ™t they? Taproot have been releasing slightly modified verions of the same hard rock/nu metal hybrid since they first gave us their major-label debut Gift in 2000. Review Summary: A few surprises and the usual stuff that we've come to expect from the stubborn, unmovable band.

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