(from Youtube today; Grooveshark is letting me down here)
What's The Story?
Foreign Objects are a death metal side project of CKY. Universal Culture Shock is the title track from the remastered, rereleased album in 2003 after Jess Margera & Deron Miller found fame with CKY.
Who's To Blame?
A beacon of journalistic integrity who's about to return from a 4-year hiatus.
Why ♥ It?
This track is able to take angry, energetic death metal and turn it into a very casual experience accessible to the average rock listener.
The intro chords are what you might expect from a death metal track; fast, heavy, effect-laden guitar chords, and spastic drums. However, at 0:20, a simple transition turns the track into a groove suitable for a city bus ride. The verse-chorus-bridge structure repeats a couple times, just enough to satiate. Then, suddenly at 2:42, there's a return to the intro's dissonant chords, which acts as a segue into a solo that manages both a meedly-meedly heavy metal style while maintaining a feel-good groove through simple, yet creative use of percussion. This fades back into the chorus, and then out with a well-placed wah pedal effect on the guitar.
In sum, this track is a weird one, but it's worth hearing to see what death metal does when it doesn't have the oft-maligned vocals. (Or what CKY do when they're not post-processing the tracks 17.4 times)
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