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BRILLIANT!!!!
I got to catch these guys live with Nile and they blew the crowd away. This band is nothing but pure talent and I can't wait to hear some new material!
[Saturday, September 06, 2008]
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Insane in Every Sense of the Word
Unexpect are such an amazing band, but really only if you like chaotic, dissonant, psychotic music. It's wierd, because they mash together so many types of Metal - everything from classical heavy metal to black/death metal - as well as a bunch of non-metal types of music, primarily music you might expect to hear in a circus.
It really is impossible to describe their music except as chaotic and unconventional. The Amazon previews do a fairly good job with showing the diversity between the songs, but to really get an idea of what they sound like, check out their music on their MySpace page and on YouTube, and decide for yourself whether or not you'll like this crazy music.
It's kinda wierd, because you'd expect such psychotic music to sound bad, yet they manage to pull it off very well. Or perhaps it's just that it appeals to people with already psychotic minds. Well, regardless, there's certainly a market for this type of music, and I am an avid customer of it. I personally feel it takes a great deal of talent to pull this music off well, moreso than it does to make good melodic music. I mean, it's easy to make a melody sound good, but it's a lot harder to make music that sounds like it belongs in a mental hospital sound good, yet Unexpect seem to be able to do that.
So yeah, there's no way this music is going to appeal to everyone, but I say check them out, and if you like what you hear, get this album, and expect the Unexpect(ed).
[Monday, July 21, 2008]
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Great band
I have been into this bizarre/Avant-garde type of music for a long time and with Mr. Bungle/all of its infantren, Estradasphere, Tub Ring, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Faxed Head, and Idiot Flesh already in my collection, I was under the impression that I had the genre/anti-genre covered.
Unexpect, however, I found to fit in very well with their friends in my CD collection. Yes, they are intense, insane, ridiculous, complex, and amazing. No, they do not do anything to overshadow the aforementioned artists. Unexpect are incredible and will freak out any of your "normal" friends, but they're not the first.
Overall, this CD is certainly worth picking up and undoubtedly more deserving of a listen than 99% of popular music.
[Sunday, July 29, 2007]
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