American Head Charge
Trepanation

THE REVIEW

It's 1998, and two guests at a detox center in L.A. meet; they are Martin Heacock and Chad Hanks, voice and bass of American Head Charge. They make their debut with this self-produced CD (and perhaps because of that, mixed in a slapdash manner) of pure and raw industrial metal.

It starts with the beautiful Reach and Touch, a very fast song. This is followed by Different, then Seamless, and finally Fall, which are, in my humble opinion, along with Pushing The Envelope, the best tracks on the album.
There is great inventiveness from this band, which churns out samples like peanuts. However, there are some notes to make about this album: the very poor mixing makes the singer's voice, which is not bad at all, almost drowned out by the instruments. However, there are also less successful episodes; just listen to Taste Acid and the final Pretty Face, whose ending lasts longer than the song itself, and this fact really gets on my nerves. Technically, there's not much to say; the guitar lines are quite simple, and due to the drum mix, you can only hear the snare well.

A very good album that I really like for the aggressiveness of the sounds and the extensive use of electronics in the songs. It’s certainly not a MUST-HAVE, but it deserves a place in every CD collection.