 |
|
|
Music Review:
Gravity Kills - Superstarved*
Artist: Gravity Kills
Album: Superstarved* (2002)
Label: Mojo/Jive
Genre: Industrial Rock
Release Date: March 19, 2002 |
|
|
|
Gravity Kills
broke into the music scene with their high powered hit "Guilty"
which propelled their debut album up the charts. The song was
also featured playing in the background of the David Fincher hit
Se7en. Gravity Kill's self-title album spawned a serious of singles
that found their way onto soundtracks and remix albums. The
Mortal Kombat soundtrack featured a demo (and edited) version of
"Goodbye" while the Lords of Acid created one of their best
known remixes with their song "Down," and an even cooler remix was
released from the song "Blame."
When Gravity Kill's second album,
not counting the remix CD Manipulated which featured no
new work from the trio, came into stores it was met with high
expectations, but those who expected Gravity Kills to escape the
Sophomore curse were wrong, and Perversion was a major
disappointment to some die-hard GK fans.
This brings us up to their third
release, Superstarved* which puts the band back into the
so-called saddle that they rode so high upon with Gravity
Kills. Superstarved* is more of a mix between the
guitar-laden first album, and the techno/industrial influenced
second release. Superstarved* surprising first single
"One
Thing" is so reminiscent of "Guilty" that you might even mistake
them from coming off of the same album together.
"...sounds eerily like a Marilyn
Manson song even by the title."
"Love, Sex, and Money" sounds eerily
like a Marilyn Manson song even by the title. The cover song
"Personal Jesus" makes you wonder what CD you actually inserted
into your stereo with it's very country guitar, that skips away
and makes way for a very hard guitar. Earlier last year Gravity
Kills posted demo versions of "Enemy" and "Personal Jesus" for
fans to download. A demo version is an unmixed song, and it
shows. The new tracks differ quite a bit from the originals even
by name. A track named "Shake It" was also demo-released, but it
doesn't have appeared to make it onto the final album.
All in all the CD will make you
somewhat forget about Perversion and remember how good
Gravity Kills was. While the albums only fault is sounding
maybe a bit too much like the previously mentioned discs, that
is nothing hard to come by for true fans of the band.
If you were a fan and lost track of
the band, never have been a fan, or have been waiting for a new
album from these guys for a long time, you won't be let down,
Superstarved* is an awesome album.
- Erich Becker wonders
what it would be like to be Superstarved.
Return to
Music Review Index --
Entertainmentopia Home -- Top
|
.gif){kind=small}
