No no no no no no. I refuse to acknowledge this shite… All right fine. I’ll review this, but I’m not happy about it.  

My first thoughts when downloading this album were, “A Capella ey? Isn’t that the type of music where people sing the parts of the instruments themselves like the douche bags wearing headphones on the train?” Right on the fucking money Mr. Civi, and cross bread with that most awful of metal sub genres, the head spinningly, vomit educingly cheesy Power Metal. All the instruments except the drums and some of the synth is performed with the voice, which, while possibly could be construed as talented in Bizzaro world (Simpsons joke), is so fucking annoying I want to shit my organs out just because I think that will put me out of my misery faster than hitting delete. 

I’m not even joking; ‘Sing a song of metal’ sounds like it came off a Disney soundtrack. And I didn’t even listen to the ‘Master of Puppets’ cover because, even though I am by no means a fan of Metalica, even I couldn’t stand to hear a song that is so important to metal in general murdered so horribly. Who the fuck gave them the rights that do that anyway?!?! They need a good slapping about. And while I’m thinking about it, it’s a bit of a wimpy cop out have a real drum kit isn’t it? Surely a true A Cappella band is fully voice or body sounds. I would happily volunteer to be their drummer just so I could make the snare sound by smashing their heads repeatedly against a table. 

I don’t think it would be so offensively bad if the music wasn’t such a painfully well trodden, average as dirt brand of power metal. A Capella Myrkskog, now there’s a more interesting proposition. All in all I think it is a gimmicky piece of crap that contributes nothing and only makes the ‘band’ look stupid. End. 

Carl Sucharyna Thomas