Curl Up And Die - Unfortunately, We're Not Robots

This album will knock you flat out (with a board with nail in it) and take your lunch money. Whether that is a good thing or not, is strictly up to you. This CD is straight up brutal! The production is absolutely, 100% top notch, the guitars sound great, and if you're looking for a album to sacrafice animals to, you've found your savior. There's only one problem with Curl Up and Die. It sounds exactly like Converge. You could say it's because of the production of Kurt Ballou, for he produced Converge's Jane Doe as well, but they are really trying to sound just... like... Converge... Exactly! Drop down the skill level of the guitar player, take away the tracks that sound like no other band alive, and switch the "wah wah waaaah"s to "yah yah yaaaah"s, and you've got a band called Curl Up and Die. It's difficult to take the album for what it is, and accept the fact that if another band didn't ever exist, neither would this one, but I'm trying my best. It's a three piece, which is very respectable and virtually impossible if you hear what they produce! If you've never heard this kind of dissonant rip metal, you're in for a treat. It's worth owning at least for novelty's sake. The band has some very creative ideas. For instance, the first 4 tracks are each 1 word (we, are, all, and dead) lasting about 7 seconds each, flowing right into each other, and zipping into track 5. It's very cool, and if you look down at your player after listening only a few minutes, somehow you got on track 7. hmmm? I'm a fan of math metal, and even though Curl Up and Die is made up of a few talented players, they are definitely players, not song writers. We've got a par album here worthy of 3.0 manstyle points. [www.curlupanddie.net]