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{ True Madness Magazine }
Music Reviews
Big Collapse, Prototype
The Militia Group, 2003
By Joey Eddy
While there are gabillions of record labels in the world and quasitrilliongabillion record labels in New Jersey alone there is a very limited amount of GOOD labels. But, this label, The Militia Group, based in southern Cali is certainly beginning to intrigue a large fanbase. Starting up in 2000, bands were quickly added to its starting roster. Such bands like Rufio, The Beautiful Mistake and The Lyndsay Diaries. While these bands have had their successes and will most certainly have greater success in the near future...make way for one of their newer artists. With their first LP release, Big Collapse enters the music scene with deafening, electrifying, brain-splitting, tongue biting, shit-stinkin', fuck fuckin', good-ole fashioned rock and/or roll. While the album itself, Prototype, is not necessarily going to be awarded a Grammy, let's just say for their first CD, these guys show a lot of promise. This four-piece rock band from LA shows a lot of their influences on this 10 song upheaval. Some of my favorite tracks include: Colossal, Deliver Me and We All End Up Dead.
Vocals scratch and whine with a perfect pitch and the music itself is mixed to something close to a juvenile perfection while the circular classic rock flows around the verses, choruses and breakdowns of their pieces. If you are a fan of direct lyrics...throw this CD away. I just assumed at first the words were written by a four-year old epileptic. But, they are actually quite brilliant, excluding the ridiculous and confusing line: "Our love empire wastes away". Don't think about that line for too long or blood will shoot out your nose. But the rest seem all too perfect; "another angel sent for me with crooked teeth scratching the walls of my brief de facto peace". So, if you want to hear Black Sabbath, Our Lady Peace, The Hives and The International Noise Conspiracy with an emo enema added at the most needed moments, then by all means, sit back in your nacho cheese encrusted Lay-Z-Boy, flip on your Discman and fall back into fantasies of rock n' roll.
Rating: 4 out of 5
(Joey Eddy is our newest staff member and we couldn’t be happier about it. Knowing Joey, he probably just laughed because the words “staff” and “member” were right next to each other. Look out for more on this promising lady killer from Georgetown, Texas’ views on music, ranging from Hopesfall to Clay Aiken. And yes, he’s James Eddy’s brother…seriously.)
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