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Album Review
by SashaS
5-3-2003
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Adema: 'Insomniac’s Dream'
(Arista)
Adema’s mini-album for rock-devotees
If some things happen for a reason, why others don’t? It is a conundrum Adema are facing: a monolith-solid, rocking band that can also drop a forceful emo-tune certainly doesn’t get breaks it deserves in the Euro-lands. They are as good, if not better than the infernal Linkin Park, they really pish over Limp Bizkit, are as intense as the Adema singer sibling’s band, Korn, and can be as loud as their other co-towners, The Deftones.
Yeah, Adema are led by Jonathan Davis’s half-brother Mark Chavez and share some stylistic moments with Korn but are not a rap-crossover, rather a nu-metal… Well represented on this curio-mix of two new cuts, three remixes, one live track and one cover; strange assemblage but it works despite being just an obvious stopgap release.
‘Immortal’ is taken from a new ‘Mortal Kombat’ vid-game and it is mean-menacing-motivated piece that alternates noisier and calmer passages while echoes with epic, ‘myth’-making song about a virtual heroes. ‘Do What You Want’ is served live and it threatens to bring down one’s speakers; it is brutal but that’s how the band handles things – with powerful passion! Of the remixes, ‘Freaking Out’, is the most interesting after being handled by NIN’s Chris Vrenna.
‘Nutshell’ is a chilling reading of Alice In Chains’ cut from the ‘Jar Of Flies’ EP, a tad paced up and with a bit of heaviness added but it is the undertone that carries it through. (It made me choke on memories!) The other new song is ‘Shattered’ and, after Chavez’s claim to have written a song for the AiC’s late singer Layne Staley, we hoped this would be it. But no, it doesn’t appear to be so; it is still a power-paced track that deals with life and confusion it causes in most of us.
Despite usually having problems with mini-albums because, as mentioned a-fore, they feel like a quick cash-in, Adema’s ‘Insomniac’s Dream’ is worth having in everyone’s collection. Twenty-seven minutes of more than decently heavy bliss…
7/10
SashaS
5-3-2003
Adema’s mini-album ‘Insomniac’s Dream’ is out now on Arista Records
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