One Minute Silence - 'Revolution' (Taste Media)
2/5
By: Thomas Hannan
If the telling social commentary in the classic motion-picture 'Back to the Future' has taught us nothing else, it's proved that the invention of time machines cannot come soon enough. In addition to looking pretty damn ace, they could also save a career or two. Enter, One Minute Silence.
Let's be honest, if even the truly rock-focussed media is proclaiming the death of nu-metal, you're going to need to be something special to stand out from a pack. The quandary with 'Revolution' is that it needed to be released about five years previously. Then, being a tune that's in many aspects a reasonable enough effort, it may well have been surfing the nu-metal tidal wave rather successfully. In this day and age, it's sadly likely to end up as just a little bit more work for the rock 'n roll coastguard.
Sadly, it's not as if they do themselves any favours. The artwork, possibly intended to be either ironic or scary, instead ends up looking little different to a screenshot from 'Quake 3'. Lyrically, it's spot-on, embracing the ethical fabric essential to the genre of individuality and anti-conformity, but musically an early slide into a heavy metal formula fully betrays the words of singer Brain Barry, its lack of ambition reducing 'Revolution' into merely a few minutes of tired slogans.
Sure, these are competent enough musicians with the help of a fabulous producer (in the shape of one John Leckie) and unsurprisingly a formidable force in the live context, and predicting their demise is being a little swift to judge. But change does needs to come soon. Conclusively, One Minute Silence are hardly to blame for the death of a genre, but with 'Revolution', they're not fully offering a cure.
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