{"id":1877,"date":"2012-07-31T20:37:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T20:37:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-07-31T20:37:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T20:37:14","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/?p=1877","title":{"rendered":"5 Star Grave: Drugstore Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massacre\/Sound Pollution<\/p>\n<p>Italian six-piece metal band 5 STAR GRAVE return with their second effort. Modern, groovy, with street attitude and a bit of punk thrown in, the info has a lot to say. For years on from their debut \u201cCorpse Breed Syndrome\u201d the band returns to be politically incorrect again. Production comes courtesy of Tobias Lundstr\u00f6m at Bohus Sound Studios, so what could go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>The eleven tracks are a mix of three grades, 2, 3 and 4. The real stinkers are not found here, neither the really outstanding efforts. 5 STAR GRAVE utilizes several harsh voices, loops, a fine overall sound picture but messes it up, and I don\u00b4t think that this album will be anything but forgotten by 2015. They do use refrains, good ones even, but the many shrill voices tend to shred the best of them. The mix of metal and modern features is fragile, in my ears at least. I still tend to like the ending of \u201cWhen the Lights Go Out\u201d and \u201cLemmings\u201d, the refrains are there, the vocals feels better suited for them, and there\u00b4s even an 80\u00b4s tinged keyboards thrown in for good measure. I wish 5 STAR GRAVE all the luck in the world, but I think it will be tough. <\/p>\n<p>Track List<br \/>\nTerminal Bedroom<br \/>\nDeath Put a Smile on My Face<br \/>\nLove Affair with the Beast<br \/>\nDaddy<br \/>\nDeath Times Eleven<br \/>\nNo Devil LiveD oN<br \/>\nDead Girls Don\u00b4t Say No<br \/>\nBoy A<br \/>\nIf<br \/>\nWhen the Lights Go Out<br \/>\nLemmings<\/p>\n<p>www.massacre-records.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/5stargrave\/shows\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/5stargrave\/shows<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massacre\/Sound Pollution Italian six-piece metal band 5 STAR GRAVE return with their second effort. Modern, groovy, with street attitude and a bit of punk thrown in, the info has a lot to say. For years on from their debut \u201cCorpse Breed Syndrome\u201d the band returns to be politically incorrect again. Production comes courtesy of Tobias [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd_reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}