Blood On The Dance Floor
Evolution

LA RECENSIONE

Forget evolution, we are truly regressing here, heading towards the ridiculous.

But let's take it slow: firstly, I don’t know Blood on the Dance Floor, they don’t even have a Wikipedia page* (see note at the end), which already says a lot about the substance of this band. Then I carefully observe the album artwork: absolutely horrible. I look them up on Facebook, they have a whopping 485,000 fans, I check out their photos, and my opinion of them continues to crumble. How the hell do they dress?? Their style seems like a best of the worst of the last two music generations: two guys à la 'Bill Kaulitz' with visual kei makeup, playing rock music mixed with dubstep (yes, unfortunately, you read that correctly). As I said, Tokio Hotel and dubstep, the worst of the worst.

Trying to put aside my prejudices, I delved into listening to the album, just like I did with Black Veil Brides, another band ignored by many for their look. But that’s another story. The story of Blood on the Dance Floor, however, is much sadder and more inconsistent, even though the beginning of "Evolution" isn't that dreadful: "Rise and Shine" isn’t as awful as it might seem (but still awful, mind you), and "Unforgiven" I could easily see in the latest album by Faber Drive (another band in free fall); shame that then the massacre begins... but I'm talking about a real massacre, not the fictional one of the initial double: I wonder how a rational mind can write songs like "Revenge Porn" or "Love Conquers All". Let's add the usual super boring and repetitive dubstep bases, let's add that many songs, with those chilling keyboards, wouldn’t even make artists like Rebecca Black (!) jealous, let's add that the CD is freaking too long: 18 songs like these are torture.

In short, I flat-out fail this album, even though in the end among the list of special guests, I find none other than Joel Madden.

Yes, him indeed, the former singer of Good Charlotte! The reasons why he collaborated on a song of such a bad and useless album are two: either one of the Blood on the Dance Floor members is a relative of his, or who knows what drugs he was on.

Anyway, that's enough, I've wasted far too much time on this shitty album.

SCORE: 2 (out of 10) 

*NOTE: I originally wrote this review in August, but I'm only posting it on Debaser now. The Wiki page on BOTDF exists now.