Scars Of Life
Mute

The inconclusiveness made music. I'm really sorry to say this, but claiming that Scars Of Life are useless in the current music scene is more like giving them a compliment...
The band has been around the American underground for a while now and offers a work of pure nu-metal as we conceive it today, with clean and melodic vocals, tight rhythms, and distorted guitars, but it's a work that's not worth a dime, even if we compare it to the most hideous nu-metal releases of recent times! And this is not because it's essentially a bad album; actually, we could even say it's not...
After all, there are some (minimal) interesting passages or riffs. The substantial problem is not this: it's that every single song is inconclusive in a frightening way!! I don't know if I can convey the idea of inconclusiveness. Usually, nu-metal songs and melodies, being simpler and more catchy, get into your head right away: here you can listen to the same song for an hour, and rest assured, you won't remember it, even if it's very simple and lasts less than 4 minutes!! Do you find that absurd? So do I! You end up listening to the album and then asking yourself: “and then?". The singer always uses the same vocal tone, it's static in a dreadful way, he practically can't reconcile the melody of the song with his singing, which is actually the most obvious, predictable, and banal thing any singer should be able to do to be defined as such!
Or maybe it's just the songs that all sound the same... Or is it me who's paranoid? Boh!! Honestly, I can't even tell! It seems like he's always singing the same thing for all the songs on the album, even though the melodies are completely different!
Then these "melodies"... are so haphazard that sometimes it seems like we're facing a bunch of chords randomly put together, the choruses all seem the same... In short, songs of disarming uselessness. I don't deny that some nu-metal fanatic (what a stupid definition, feel free to stone me) might like this album. But honestly, I just don't understand what the heck Scars Of Life are for right now, it comes naturally, after listening to the album, to say: "Why the hell should I even listen to this stuff with all the metal out there?? And above all, what made them even want to play, didn't they have anything else to do and rightly say 'well, let's form a band, at least we'll do something!'. They should have gone to till the land, I’m not saying much but at least they would have been useful instead of bothering the music scene!".
In short, totally purposeless music, not "bad" in the pure sense of the term, but simply without any reason to exist. Forget them, I don't deny that with the next album they might come up with something decent, but for now, it's absolutely useless and harmful to waste time on them...
POOR.