HELLYEAH - Stampede
October 14, 2010, 13 years ago
(Epic)
Mod metal supergroup Hellyeah (I know, looks funny, but one word seems to be the concensus) is back with album number two and not much has changed. What you get is churning downtuned riffs from Mudvayne’s Greg Tribbett and Nothingface’s Tom Maxwell propelled by the nu-metal bass tones of Damageplan’s Bobzilla. Vinnie Paul, of course, bashes out the bottom, while Mudvayne’s Chad Gray puts that weirdly out-of-tune Mudvayne bark o’ertop. The end result is a hybrid between metalcore and nu-metal, which is not something that appeals to me for both reasons. Ergo, there goes hooks out the window, there goes angry monotoned signing and doomful playing marching on at mid-paced cage match altitudes and attitudes. I dunno, it’s the feeling of being yelled at over a type of music that feels ten years ago and then pretty much no one has a good memory of nu-metal so yeah, there’s some extra bad vibes to go with yer being yelled at.
