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The musical career of Dry Kill Logic begins in Westchester, New York, in 1995, and they have been immediately inspired by the legendary gods of metal: Pantera, Tool, King Diamond, Sepultura, and Fear Factory. The band is composed of four members: Cliff Rigano (vocals), Dave Kowatch (bass), Scott Thompson (guitar), and Phil Arcuri (drums). The album I reviewed is the first LP of their discography, preceding The Dead And Dreaming (2004) and Magellan Complex (soon to hit the shelves).
The album consists of 12 tracks and despite the obvious lack of technical originality presented, in the end, you come to think that they play well and as a debut, it only shows a few gaps. The work is solid and easily digestible without particular efforts, oscillating between moments of 100% brute force interwoven with reflective melodies that prepare new sound violence through electronics; it goes up with anger and down with anguish, stimulating our acoustic receptors throughout its duration.
An album that manages to put all the frustration of a Life as cruel as it is absurd in front of us. It starts strong with Nightmare, which represents the synthesis of the album with its sharp refrain like a sentence: "ME + U = NIGHTMARE", then moves on to Feel the Break, which I consider to be one of the best tracks on the CD where Rigano manages to show us his inner anguish with his vocal skill. The subsequent tracks do not follow a logical thread and appear fairly disconnected from each other, suspended between various styles (Fear Factory, Korn, Mudvayne, etc.) but in any case, they offer good entertainment. Noteworthy are Assfault and Weight, where Rigano displays his vocal versatility. In my opinion, the CD picks up again with Rot and track 13, when you start to feel a skull creaking, subjected to remarkable sound pressures followed by fierce yet sweet melancholic openings. Functional tempo changes and an Arcuri who skillfully carves out his slice of glory manage to envelop us, making us an integral part of a process where we are both the knife and the wound. The album closes with Goodnight, which is the softest song on the CD and shows the quartet's more melodic vein, arranged acoustically, representing a moment of serenity after so much fervor.
This is a CD that will make many cringe, but others might like it, especially if they love bands that alternate aggression and melody in an appropriate and effective way. A group that deserves attention, in my opinion, because they know how to create atmospheres rooted in the darkest side of our existence (killing, crushing, and destroying), a fall without a grip that no one can escape from.
P.S. I also recommend The Dead And Dreaming, which offers a more mature and angry Dry Kill Logic.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Nightmare (03:11)
I don't like in you
Something strange I cannot Follow
Now you want me to
However small it seems so shallow
If you only knew
Such a feeling for words so hollow
What I'd done to you
You'd cry
Me + you = nightmare, I say
Me + you = nightmare
Me + you = nightmare, I say
Me + you = nightmare
You took it all away
I alone replace what's broken
Nothing left to say
Muted words that were not spoken
If and when I may
Life is over - lack of motion
Shamed is where I lay
I tried
Me + you = nightmare, I say
Me + you = nightmare, I say
Me + you = nightmare, I say
Me + you = nightmare, I say
Never before have I felt so hollow
First one to lead and now I follow
Carry the things that I cannot dismiss
Never again do I think I will feel this
Never again do I think I will feel this
Me + you = nightmare, I say
Me + you = nightmare, I say
Me + you = nightmare, I say
Me + you = nightmare, I say
You worthless piece of shit
Me + you = nightmare, I say
Me + you = nightmare, I say
Me + you = nightmare, I say
Me + you = nightmare, I say
02 Feel the Break (03:09)
You remember, I will always
See you for the liar you are.
And if I were gone tomorrow
Then finally you would see all my scars.
This won't get the best of me
Won't try to even listen to me
You keep clinging on to me
But I feel my sanity drain and
I feel the break I
Can feel the break I
You remember, I will always
See you for the liar you are.
And if I were gone tomorrow
Then finally you would see all my scars.
This won't get the best of me
Won't try to even listen to me
You keep clinging on to me
But I feel my sanity drain and
I feel the break I
Can feel the break I
I can feel the break
And I know what's to follow
Never before was the truth
hard to follow
In your own self-doubt you will wallow
Now it's my time
You remember I will always
See you for the liar I know you ARE!
Even when I try
I cannot seem to find
One good reason why
I should believe your lies and
I feel the break I
Can feel the break I
Can feel the break and I know what's to follow
Never before was the truth hard to swallow
In your own self-doubt you will wallow
Now I don't have the time
04 Nothing (03:31)
Do you want to
Step to this? Wanna mess with this?
Wanna piss on this? You're on my shit
list. Did you lie to me?
Are you blind to see? I never ever
gave a fuck of what they thought of
me. How can I trust you when I know
you? Nothing meant more to me
than you. You took, I gave, your
breath - please save.
Now I see clearly
You'll pay for this dearly
Everything that I thought we had was a lie
What goes around comes around
Once lost now I am found
All of this hatred I focus on you.
I have nothing
You've given me nothing
And I
Thought we had something
To believe in
Deceiving
My point of view you don't seem to
like, these thing of you you don't like
to smile but you don't want to be my
friend. 'Cuz we are on again, then off
again, then on again, lets not pretend
that this could ever be. It can't - you see?
Now I see clearly
You'll pay for this dearly
Everything that I thought we had was a lie
What goes around comes around
Once lost now I am found
All of this hatred I focus on you.
I have nothing
You've given me nothing
And I
Thought we had something
To believe in
Deceiving
Nothing
05 Assfault (03:22)
I'll give you just a little of what you need
And then I take a little and now it seems
That everything is a lie and yet they try
To force it back up on you; what will
you do?
You think you're tougher than this -
you'll be dismissed
You think it's easy for me to beleive
That every word has been said and
left for dead
My pride is bigger than that - remains
intact.
Now I take this
And I could care less
About your distress
I lie in the bed that I have made.
And now I'm coming for you -
what will you do?
This time I prove it to you -
follow through
And there is nowhere to hide that you
will find
This is the end of the line and it's you I
find.
Now I take this
And I could care less
About your distress
I lie in the bed that I have made
06 Weight (04:08)
And I pray salvation leaves you here
again
And if I swear for you, I've seen the end
I bear
This weight
For you
And now if seems to me
Every time that I try
To give you peace of mind,
You go and question why.
Some things you just should know
That it was yours to show
It's like I feel this way
Because I'm wanted to.
"and I pray for"
Weight
All of the weight
Can't stand the weight
Crushing
Pushing down on me
You can't seem to see
What's left in me
And now I
I bear
This weight
For you
The pressure grates on me
Yet I am loathe to find
Some sort of middle ground
To work at compromise.
You'll never understand
What all this does to to me
I'm keeping you alive,
And yet it's killing me.
And I pray salvation leaves you here
again
And if I swear for you, I've seen the
end
Weight
All of the weight
Can't stand the weight
Crushing
Pushing down on me
You
Can't seem to see
What's left in me
And now I
Never - I won't
Compromise it - I won't
Take for granted - I won't
Give up on it - I won't
Idolize it - I must
Keep my focus - I must
Sacrifice us - I must
Never let go - I must
Not fall
08 Rot (04:34)
Everything I need is not really what I want.
I really really wanna see you die.
Everything I want I can't have if left up to me
Un-af-fec-ted
By all the bullshit you cause
Un-pro-tec-ted
Naked so we see your flaws
Vi-o-lat-ed
You must think that we don't see this
Dis-re-spec-ted
Just remember it's our ass you kiss
Rot.
You don't like me; I hope you
Rot.
Un-jus-ti-fied
You keep fucking with us; we are
Hos-tile-in-side
We consider you a joke it's
Hate-mag-nif-ied
Soon you'll think that we don't see this
Strip-down-your-pride
Soon you'll feel the force of all of us
Rot.
You don't like me; I hope you
Rot.
I don't like you
Can't you see this?
Why won't you
Leave me alone?
11 The Strength I Call My Own (03:01)
And I will wander on alone
The strength that I will call my own
Inside my mind
There is something left to find
It's like this - focus
Not no hocus pocus
Bullshit - don't quit
Before I have to throw a fit
You want this, need this
Don't miss all this
Lies. Lies. Lies. Lies.
And I wander on alone
The strength that I will call my own
Inside my mind
There is something left to find
It's like this - focus
Not no hocus pocus
Bullshit - don't quit
Before I have to throw a fit
You want this, need this
Don't miss all this
Your hostile lifestyle
Contributes to my profile
And this shit, that shit
All a bunch of bullshit
You sit back, lay back
Enjoy your fuckin' kickbacks
Explode - unload
Just like you're told
Lies. Lies. Lies. Lies.
And I will wander on alone
The strength that I will call my own
Everything I say comes back to haunt me.
Everything I say will come back to
haunt me.
Lies. Lies. Lies. Lies.
And I will wander on alone.
The strength that I will call my own
12 Goodnight (04:08)
Now that I
Face the world with pain inside
Strange but I
Can't understand the reasons why.
Forever is
A world that I cannot describe
That Died the time we said goodnight.
It makes no difference, wrong or right
The time has come to say goodnight.
And how could I
Be so sure but be so wrong?
And how could I?
Have a will so weak with a mind so strong?
And Only I
Can tell the difference right or wrong.
It makes no difference, wrong or right
I guess it's best we say goodnight.
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