17/06/02

PAPA ROACH / LOVE HATE TRAGEDY

How do you follow up a best selling, multi platinum album, let's face it, it's not going to be easy, so you don’t.

Being the smart cookies they are Papa Roach have realised that recording Infest part 2 would not be a good idea so they have added a new dimension to the Roach sound and created something new. This CD is not so much nu metal and more of a traditional Rock album with a bit of Punk attitude thrown in for good measure.

The first single of the album "She Loves Me Not" is fairly representative of Lovehatetragedy and if you like that you will love the rest of it. One listen to tracks like "Born With Nothing, Die With Everything", "Singular indestructible Droid" or the title track and you will know that this is not another Nu Metal album, the Roach have progressed beyond this and thus assured their long term future. The big surprise is "Decompression Period" which is almost a Ballard and shows the new sounding Roach of too it's fullest.

TOTAL PLAYING TIME = 44 mins + 13 TRACKS & 2 CD ROMS