Mute Malevolence

Sariah Bishop | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 1, 2004)
• Original Release Date: October 26, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sin Icon Records
• ASIN: B00067WFA0
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,180,129 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Rebel

2. 2000 Sins

3. Still

4. Dark Shades In December

5. Anything

6. Virtuous

7. Lost Child

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If this is goth, then I've been seriously decieved., May 24, 2005

By 

Lakini Malich (Jersey City, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mute Malevolence (Audio CD)

Let's take a look at the album description, shall we?

It likens Ms. Bishop's sound to 'heavy electronic industrial metal', and compares her to KMFDM and Nine Inch Nails, and then quotes a reviewer who refers to it as 'Beautiful Goth'?

Now, I'm just a simple country reviewer, but last time I checked, goth music was neither industrial nor metal. As for beauty, that in itself is highly subjective. I'd say 'Beautiful Goth' would be Danielle Dax, Patricia Morrison, or Dinah Cancer. This woman just looks like they took a Christina Aguilera look-alike and made her slightly more 'edgy'.

Another word used is 'Dark Alternative'. I can certainly agree with the alternative part, as it's clearly an 'alternative' to GOOD. But dark? Possibly in the way that such god-awful bilge as Korn or Marilyn Manson is dark. Dark in the sense of pre-manufactured rebellion, all nice and safe, but with a "spooky" image to rope in the angsty teens with too much of their parent's money in their baggy jean pockets.

If you want REAL 'Beautiful Goth' music with REAL passion, try Xmal Deutschland, Blood & Roses, Asmodi Bizarr, or Bone Orchard, because there's certainly nothing goth about Sariah Bishop.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Oh please, June 6, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Mute Malevolence (Audio CD)

I'm 12, and even I can tell this is about as goth as 50 Cent. Ooo, so dark and spooky....if you can call Britney Spears in leather pants spooky. Try And Also The Trees, Children On Stun, or Andi Sex Gang. Those are REAL goth bands. Or for some great dark poppy stuff, there's Strawberry Switchblade. Don't be fooled by what the media says...this scag is in no way, shape or form 'goth'. 'Background filler for pseudo-alternative clubs' is more like it. Feh.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A fine example of overproduction, May 23, 2005

By 

disilluminate "Xyrus Drakemore" (Northwest IN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mute Malevolence (Audio CD)

I listened to some of the songs with an open mind, and I couldn't take much more of the "I'm so gawff woe is me!" attitude. I don't see originality here. It's just another fine example of an over-produced album designed for neo-goths to purchase with glee in order to make a few people rich.

I can only see this as a ploy. It's the sex-appeal gimmick, "buy my album because I'm so hawtt" like HIM uses. Sariah is rather attractive to me, but I'm not about to buy an album for pretty pictures. I find her singing marginal too.

In all honesty I have heard EBM that sounds more unique than this. :\