Reviews
2003-04-27
One of the most pretentious bands I’ve yet had the pleasure to encounter. Here’s a small extract from their web site:
www.arizing.com
“With all respect to the greats of modern music such as the Beatles, Led Zepplin, and more recently the Smashing Pumpkins, Arizing could very well be the next pioneers. “
Unfortunately their innovation level doesn’t quite match to their ego level and so the result is not even close to the bombastic for-mentioned declaration. At best Arizing are a small and insignificant part of a relatively new wave front called Nu-Funk-Metal which the founding fathers and current developers are Korn, Limp Bizkit, Incubus, System of a Down, Disturbed, Tool and more…
For a debut album “Womb” hits it off quite well. Ignoring the ridicules overall sound, Arizing has this Silver Chair / Deftones kind of style with an Incubus touch that gives an atmosphere of head-banging/Kitsch that nu-metal seems to embrace now days. Created by using hard-core verses and then melodic choruses or vise-versa.
Arizing got several potential hits but “540” takes the grand-prize!
Very catchy verse that changes into a powerful chorus and a Killer C-part. Matt Delton has tremendous vocal ability and he exploits it to the fullest in incubus’ fashion.
Several of the songs got some undeveloped childish riffs that Arizing would grow out off, I’m sure, but almost every song in the album has an excellent chorus.
Arizing has enormous potential waiting to explode hard and I look forward to their next albums.
Tal Galfsky
