2007

[STATIC-X, A "TRUE BORN MENACE" TO HEAR. FRONTMAN, WAYNE STATIC HAS LED THIS BAND TO THE "EXTREME OF THE EXTREME." FROM "WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP" TO "MACHINE" TO "SHADOW ZONE" TO "BENEATH BETWEEN BEYOND" TO "START A WAR" AND NOW TO THE MASSIVE WINNING ALBUM "CANNIBAL." WITH THEIR NEW ALBUM LICENSED UNDER REPRISE RECORDS, IT SEEMS TO US THAT ITS A NEW HEIGHT FOR STATIC-X, BOTH MUSICALLY AND TO THEIR FANS.]

HITTING YOUR FACE FIRST IS WITH THEIR HIT SINGLE "SELF TITLED" ALBUM TRACK, "CANNIBAL." THEY GIVE YOU, THE FANS, THE HARDCORE ADRENALINE, HEART PUMPING, HEADBANGING MUSIC JOURNEY. A ROUGH CUT, FAST PACE SONG RAISING TRUE TENDENCIES MAKES THIS SONG, A "TRUE BELIEVER".

NEXT IS "NO SUBMISSION". A SONG THAT DOES NOT NEED NO INTRODUCTION. THE TITLE SAYS IT ALL. YOU DON'T NEED TO GIVE UP ON ANYTHING YOU WANT TO DO IN LIFE. JUST KEEP ON GOING FOR IT. YET ANOTHER GREAT SONG TO HEAR. ONE OF A KIND.

"BEHEMOTH", A SONG FOR THE NAKED EYE. IT HAS A MORE INDUSTRIAL/SYNTH FEEL IN THE FIELD IN THE BEGINNING AND END BUT YET STILL HAS THAT HARD ROCKIN' EDGE MOOD IN THE MIDDLE. SO IT MAKES US WONDER: "WHAT'S NEXT?" IN YOUR BLOODSTREAM.

[STATIC-X BRINGS, EACH AND EVERY TIME, A GREAT SUCCESSOR TO BECOME MORE AND MORE RADIANT AND POWERFUL. "STRAIGHT EDGE WITH NO FEAR. NO HESITATION."]

"CHEMICAL LOGIC" IS ANOTHER SOLID SONG. FAST PACE, GREAT GUITAR RIFFS, NICE PROGRAMMING, TREMENDOUS VOCAL RANGE FROM STATIC AND THE DRUMMING IS REMARKABLE.

ANOTHER HIT, "DESTROYER" TAKES YOU IN THE MIND OF A COMPULSIVE CREATURE THAT CANNOT KEEP HIS RAPID ADDICTIONS TO A HALT.

"FORTY WAYS", A SONG, IN OUR VIEW, THAT TEACHES YOU EACH WAY HAS A POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE INFLUENCE IN LIFE WHETHER THE PATH YOU CHOOSE IS HEADS OR TAILS.

[BEYOND THIS POINT THE ALBUM IS HALF-WAY OVER. LIKE, WE WOULD BE HEADBANGING ALL THE WAY TO HELL BY NOW. THIS ALBUM IS TRULY GRAND AND A MARVELOUS ITEM TO HAVE IN YOUR COLLECTION.]

"CHROMA-MATIC" IS MAKING OUR BLOODSTREAM GO WILD. ANOTHER EXCELLENT CHOICE. A SONG FOR THE LOUD AND THE FREE. THIS COULD ALSO EXPLAIN THE HYPERTENSION OF AN INSANE PERSON. JUST A THOUGHT.

"CUTS YOU UP" IS GIVING A MESSAGE ABOUT THE PAST AND YET THROUGH IT ALL, THE PERSON HAD ROUGH TIMES. HE DIVIDED AND CONQUERED AND BECAME SOMEONE MORE STRONGER THAN WHAT HE KNEW HE WOULD BECOME.

"REPTILE" IS BASED UPON GETTING EATEN BY A REPTILE WHICH WAS STATED BY WAYNE STATIC, HIMSELF.

ANOTHER SESSION OF STATIC-X'S DELIVERY IS WITH THE SONG "ELECTRIC PULSE." THIS SONG MAKES US THINK OF FRANKENSTEIN AND THE ELECTRIC CHAIR.

"GOAT" SIMPLY MAKES US THINK OF BEING HUNTED OR BECOMING THE HUNTER TO SEARCH FOR FOOD IF WONDERING IN THE WILDERNESS TRYING TO SURVIVE. THE LAST TRACK ON THIS ALBUM WHICH MARKS THE END OF THIS REVIEW IS WITH "TEAM HATE." THE ONLY POSSIBLE STATEMENT WE CAN THINK OF WHILE LISTENING TO THIS SONG IS FRANKLY ABOUT ALL THESE MASSACRES THAT OCCURRED IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA THINKING THAT ONE IS BETTER THAN THE OTHER. ANOTHER POSSIBLE ANSWER FROM US WOULD BE: "WE STAND UNITED BUT DIVIDED WE FALL."

2009

TWO YEARS LATER FROM CANNIBAL COMES A CULT. THEIR NEW ALBUM ENTITLED "CULT OF STATIC" IS A MAJESTIC EVOLUTIONARY ALBUM THAT DEFINES HOW FAR STATIC-X HAS COME TO THEIR FANS; INCLUDING AAP. THE INDULGENCE TO BRING THEIR MOST RADICAL IDEAS INTO THIS ALBUM WAS AMAZING WHEN WE FIRST GOT OUR HANDS ON THIS ALBUM TWO DAYS BEFORE ITS RELEASE, WE WERE ASTONISHED WHEN WE HEARD TRACKS LIKE "YOU AM I", "HYPURE", "LUNATIC", "Z28", AND "TERA-FIED."

WHAT DEFINES THIS ALBUM IS THAT IT TRANSCENDS TOWARD EACH PREVIOUS ALBUM IN ITS OWN FORM TO A POINT WHERE EACH SONG ON "CULT OF STATIC" IS ITS OWN DETECTION OF PURITY AND STRONG MATURITY WITHIN THE INDUSTRIAL METAL SCENE WHICH IS STATIC-X.

EVEN TO HAVE DAVE MUSTAINE (FORMERLY OF METALLICA/CURRENTLY OF MEGADETH) TO MAKE A GUEST APPEARANCE ON THE ALBUM IS A TREMENDOUS HONOR.

GIVING STATIC-X A "10" SLIP DOESN'T EVEN QUESTION HOW FAR THEY HAVE COME TO BRING AN ALBUM STRICTLY FOR THEIR FANS.

BY FAR, "CULT OF STATIC" IS THE BEST ALBUM THEY HAVE CREATED. WE CAN'T WAIT FOR MORE FROM STATIC-X.