Imagine your n your late 20’s, early 30’s, and you were a part of the jilted generation at the turn of the century. You drag a pill, and that pill has a reversive effect, let’s say 10 years. You suddenly portray yourself in the mirror with dark hoodies and very large jeans, wanting to be a suburbian skater, with metal aspirations. Well, more or less, that’s how Hill N’ Pills make you feel about, nostalgic about your own post-modern sound. And you think about it, it won’t take long.
We’re living times, in music terms, which happen to be self-revivalistic in their own terms. Faion and musial tendencies are changing so fast that’s it is difficult not only to follow-up, but to stay true to your own identity. We’re up to find about if Hill N’ Pills have their own. Right now they’re still uncovering the sound they want to play, and they keep tracks of the bands that set their own marks in these areas.
Right now, the vocalist still sounds a lot like Serj Tankjan of SOAD, and the growling vocalist seems like a issenting member of Slipknot or Mudvayne. So this is a nu-metal banda, and those that who are not fans, or think it is part of the past, thi is not for you.
Even so there is a lot of value for those that try to keep the memory alive of those days, and are carrying it out like an oldfshioned stereotype. And the thing about nu-metal is that it was stereotyped, but it didn’t want to be oldfashioned. Many would be surprised how many bands of those days are still carrying the cross, and make it fresh.
However, the nu-metal in its essence is a dated thing, despite all the efforts the band put into it – hence the debut track “Decaied”. Moreover, if we look at it in detail, even though we hear it with some flashback/regression feeling (such as myself), it will pass along soon enough. And that’s the instant magic of this EP, it made feel a teenager for a bit, and remember it.
There is no deny that the band has some interesting techniques, specially on the rytmic session which is covered on the whole EP, but they still waging on a style that is considered by some a poor cousin of metal, meaning an outdated formula. The vocal malabarism for instance in Atchoum, which takes the advantage of the double vocalists, could be used to mélange the duo into one powerful voice, or adding another set of rythmic chords.
Adding up to the noticeable guitar work of the guitarrist.
[6/10]
