HELLYEAH - HELLYEAH
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Artist: HELLYEAHEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-05-07
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- HELLYEAH
- You Wouldn't Know
- Matter of Time
- Waging War
- Alcohaulin'Ass
- GodDamn
- In the Mood
- Star
- Rotten to the Core
- Thank You
- Nausea
- One Thing
Music reviews of HELLYEAH
Music Review: Incredibly disappointing to me
Rating: 1 Stars
First of all, they couldn't have chosen a more ridiculous name for the band. I'm a HUGE Pantera and Mudvayne fan, so I was looking extremely forward to this collaboration when I first heard about it... then they announced the band name and it immediately felt like some kind of cheesy novelty not to be taken seriously. In my mind, it's the metal equivalent of those stupid rapper names you see like, "Bun B," "Yung Joc," and, "Fabolous".
Cheesy name aside, I figured the music would still at least be enjoyable but it's unfortunately right on par with the name of the band. I have nothing against rednecks at all but I find the type of music that most rednecks associate with to be obnoxious and that's how some of this music comes across to me. Yeah, I know the boys in Pantera were all rednecks and a lot of people referred to their music as, "Southern Metal," but their stuff didn't start sounding like anything other than metal until the later years... and even then, I still enjoyed most of Pantera's later music! Damageplan was also a great band; I didn't enjoy them as much as Pantera but it was great to hear the boys get back on it.
So, back to Hellyeah... I listened to the album and there are some moments here and there that sound decent, but I can't even stomach one whole song in its entirety on this album. The heavy, unmatched groove that Pantera and Mudvayne each have brought to the table in the past is a combination I was HEAVILY looking forward to and NONE of it's there! To be honest, I am INCREDIBLY shocked that these guys are coming back for round 2. Obviously, I'm in a minority with not liking this music and though this review is absolutely meant to come off as a 1-star review, I have nothing against these guys. They're all cool dudes and they're all very talented musicians, but I just fail to see how this is the product of musicians who were in bands that wrote albums like Cowboys from Hell, Far Beyond Driven, and L.D. 50.
I'm sure I'll check out album number 2 just to see if their music advances at all but if these guys weren't who they are, this crap would've never even come close to hitting store shelves. So, all-in-all, some okay moments here and there aside, I found it difficult not to skip from one song to another on my first (and only) listen through this entire album... and I really hate it that this music registers with me like that, because like I said, I love the respective bands these guys come from (outside of Mudvayne's latest stuff which is just waaaayyyy too generic for my liking) but this album is nothing more to me than the result of a bunch of cool, well-known metal dudes getting together, throwing back a few and writing some redneck, "party metal" that would otherwise be done only as a joke in their respective bands.
I am a musician myself, so that plays another huge role in my opinion of this album. This isn't music that earns my respect at all... especially when there are bands out there who wholeheartedly deserve as much fanfare as this album has received, but never will. I'm not trying to be, "Johnny Raincloud" and ruin these guys' fun nor the enjoyment of those of you who like this music, but if you're a fan of the technical and groove elements of the bands these guys come from, you can completely expect to be disappointed in this stuff. Ridiculous band name, ridiculous lyrics (is the guy singing this stuff actually the same guy who wrote the profound content on L.D. 50!?), and music so generic that each instrument lacks the trademark sound and feel you would expect to hear at least SOME of from the respective musicians behind them.
A TOTAL disappointment for me in every way. Sorry, guys. I love these guys individually and completely acknowledge their talent but perhaps it's that very standard they set for themselves in their other bands that has left me so disappointed.
RIP Dime. You and your music are sorely missed.
Description of HELLYEAH
HELLYEAH. Five musicians, three bands = creative collision of sonic proportions. The highly anticipated debut release features MUDVAYNE lead singer Chad Gray and guitarist Gregg Tribbett, former PANTERA drummer Vinnie Paul and NOTHINGFACE guitarist Tom Maxwell and bassist Jerry Montano.The quintet includes three of hard rock's most revered and valuable players, with careers highlighted by an astonishing run of chart-topping gold and platinum albums, major industry awards, critical acclaim, Grammy nominations and music of monolithic power. REVOLVER magazine hailed the band as "the ultimate metal super group."
On paper it looks like a headbanger's dream and in the imagination it sounds like no other band possibly could: Mudvayne's Chad Gray (vocals) and Greg Tribbett (guitar), Nothingface's Tom Maxwell (guitar), and Jerry Montano (bass) join Damageplan/Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul for a good ol' batch of brawny brewtality. On record, Hellyeah sounds like your run-of-the-mill post nü metal band as it serves up a batch of southern-inflected tunes that rock hard but unconvincingly over the course of the album's 44 minutes. A thoroughly bad album would inspire the listener to pipe up with a resounding "hell no," but instead, Hellyeah's mediocre debut forces one to issue a whimpering, lukewarm "well, maybe," a far more troubling sign.
The opening, titular track slams the listener's eardrums with precision guitar figures from Maxwell and Tribbett and some career-defining pummeling from Paul. Even Gray fires on all cylinders for the bulk of the tune's three-and-a-half minutes. But the record quickly sinks beneath the weight of Gray's unsophisticated and often sophomoric lyrics. His attack on critics, "Waging War," is little more than a profanity-laden temper tantrum that's as cliché as it is petulant; "Alchohaulin' Ass," a would-be southern rock anthem, fails to live up to the minimal promise of its title and instead of turning into triumph of the spirit and celebration of the party life serves to remind us that the bottle is far more capable of drowning creative impulses than it is drowning one's sorrows; "Thank You," alternately an ode to the departed and a way of making good with the living, confuses the numbing effects of drugs and drink with the powerful connectivity of intimacy and thus fails in its attempts at suggesting we all get a little closer. Others, such as "Nausea," "One Thing," and "Star" feature lyrics so poorly developed and derivative that it's hardly worth commenting on them.
Well worth avoiding.
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