CKY - 'Infiltrate. Destroy. Rebuild' (Mercury)
3/5
By: Matt Tomiak
For the unenlightened, CKY is an abbreviation of 'Camp Kill Yourself.' Yes, they're that kind of band.
Rock with a snarl on its lips and a grudge in its heart, 'Infiltrate. Destroy. Rebuild' is the Pennsylvania residents' third album - and it actually first saw the light of day in the States back in 2002.
It's a laborious affair - the musical climate certainly hasn't sufficiently altered to make their junction of bludgeoning industrial riffs, primal growls, chest-beating distress and clumsy wordplay any easier to abide. Quite simply, 'I.D.R' doesn't contain memorable songs. There's a cumbersome quality throughout the record that any amount of grinding sub-Rage Against The Machine attitude can't cover. Rarely articulate and often hopelessly literal (really, a track about corporate conformity called 'Inhuman Creation Station'?) this is music to flick devil's horns signs to but little else besides.
Ironically enough, though, a line in 'Shock and Terror' does go a long way in neatly condensing CKY's sound: 'predictability is wearing thin'...
Artists in this article: CKY
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