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Mute Malevolence

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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.

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.

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. :\

Anybody can get out a program, through some beats together, speak/sing some "dark and gloomy" lyrics and dress up in black. It's not new and original, and she fails at the task, miserably. She can barely even sing, which is why she probably chooses to speak most of the time. She looks like something they drug off of Baywatch (fake tan and all) put some leather and black clothes on, and then told her to "sing" some redundant, angst-filled lyrics. She's not fooling anybody.

She gets 1 star for keeping me entertained whilst listen to that trash.

I went to her website and listened to the tracks available there and I must say that I was not impressed at all. The style of music that she is trying to acheive,goth/industrial, has been done before by better artists and her vocals need some help. Actually,in my opinion, the woman can't sing. All in all this album is anything but original and her whole persona seems to reek of being produced by a major record studio exec. In time a major label will probably try to promote her as some sort of Goth/Industrial goddess. Don't be fooled it's all a con.

If you're looking for a good new goth band, you might want to look elsewhere. This is run-of-the-mill pop trying to disguise itself behind an "edgy" fashion statement and some "please pay attention to me!" trying too hard lyrics. If I could give this zero stars, I would. Don't waste your time.