Songs such as "Pure American Filth" and "We All Die" imitate Slipknot with slathering precision: Maybe the album should've been called Missouri instead. But there's a good reason for all this: downthesun was "executive produced" by Slipknot's clown-masked drummer, Shawn Crahan. (GGGarth manned the boards on the project, which might make one wonder what role the executive producer actually played other than landing gigs for his buddies.) Tattoo-faced vocalist Satone is a former 'Knot roadie who pinballs off second singer Aaron Peltz in a screeching tag-team grudge match. Perhaps a better band moniker would have been underthesun; this woeful sextet sounds exactly like every other generic, canine-throated act currently circling our little sonic solar system.
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