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So Pretty So Plastic

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This album is simply stunning. The album is Killwhitneydead's heaviest album, and the most well composed. All the songs sound very distinguished and all have their own moments. This album is really good, not not flawless, that's why I gave it a 4 out of 5. There are some parts where the audio clips are a little too long, and prevent the overall flow of the album or "music". I still think that this album is worth listening, and worth buying. This band has worked on so much stuff, and this album came out to be the very best. I do agree that this band will release better music in the future as their music is constantly getting better within every release. Definitely check out the other albums!

Killwhitneydead are one of my favorite bands. They are also one of the more interesting bands to come out of the grindcore/death metal scene in a long time. Combining Grindcore, Death Metal, Hardcore, Black Metal, And Southern Rock, these guys crete a completely original and unique formula that works, and is catchy as hell. Their songs titles are also really funny. I'd reccomend this band for any one who has ever felt stabbed in the back by someone they loved or cared about.

What can I say, catchy as hell as always. If you've ever felt stabbed in the back. If you've ever been so pissed you couldn't think. If you've ever wanted to hurt someone for hurting you. Pick up this album.

Do your favorite emo kid a favor, buy them this record and make them listen to it. If this doesn't make them stop crying in their Count Chocula nothing will.

I'll tell you what I call this... freaking awesome! OK, so I'm not a big fan of metalcore (kinda poppy for me at times with the breakdowns) but, you gotta love killwhitneydead. Just about (if not ) every song starts out with a horror soundclip, and actually it mixes with the grind-ish parts of their music too. It takes a good band to mix their tempo with just people talking from movies... but it takes an incredible band to be killwhitneydead. Go out and buy it!

This album is probably the best cd in my collection. I listen to this cd everyday. The mix of Metalcore, modern cinima sound clips, and hatefull lyrics really get me going. If you are interesting in Metalcore with a little twist, then this is deffinently the album to get. Bar-None!

Review by Cory Rennison:

Samplecore? Horror-metal? You could probably make up some pretty interesting genre names for what Killwhitneydead seems to be doing. Somewhere between a mess of sound clips extracted from movies and television shows, you can find Killwhitneydead's latest album entitled So Pretty, So Plastic.

While most of the time, samples is another word for joke in a band, Killwhitneydead actually puts their samples to good use. With everything from horror movie clips to cartoon clips, the samples add a demented level to an already dark album. Add some fast, thrashy, death metal riffs, and Mike's ghastly lead vocals, and you'll get something that will either scare the hell out of you or make you laugh. The problem that hits this CD is that the guitar riffs are fairly blah, with lots of pinch harmonics thrown in. The guitar solos are also thrown in at times that seems to be completely at random.

What seems like a joy ride and a fairly interesting album at first, after a couple listens this disc starts losing its touch. While the album isn't complete trash and there are some parts that really stick out, after awhile the band just becomes a novelty item, relying on samples to get attention instead of focusing on their song structures. The result is failure to be more than an average, run-of-the-mill, metal band.

They're the only metalcore band to interest me in a long time, and it's not the movie samples or whatever other conceptual stuff they have going on, it's the riffs. I was into the first song, the second song less so, but it still had some uniqueness, by the fourth track the album is treading water, and starts boring me. The riffs in the next three songs are all simple and repetitive, like they think just having a heavy guitar sound is enough to make a song worth listening to. I don't get it because these guys obviously have more songwriting talent than 99% of their peers, and when they exercise that talent they really show the rest of the metalcore scene for the stagnant, derivitive, worthless cesspool it is, but just as often they write a riff that embodies the same simple, derivitive, lack of creativity that plagues every other faceless band in the scene that all borrow each others riffs and make worthless, redundant records. The main thing these guys have over their peers is tempo changes and dynamics, they don't plod along monotonously on a one-tempo riff for most of a song, and the transitions between tempos and types of riffs actually flow well, they don't just sound like a bunch of separate parts loosely stitched together like most metalcore does. The rapid transitions between lighter thrashy riffs and heavier death metaly riffs is what this band really excells at, but too often they use a boring, weak riff just for the sake of adding dynamics, and it ends up dragging the quality of the song down. They need to concentrate more on making every riff count, and not throw in lazy riffs amongst the good ones. They have the potential to transcend the metalcore scene, hopefully they'll spend more time on their next album and realize that potential. 7.5/10.