Confusion Bay

by Raunchy

Overview

This Danish outfit continues to kick up a thoroughly Americanized ruckus on Confusion Bay, its second album of futuro-metal. Describing Raunchy's material results in inevitable comparisons to other bands, including In Flames ("9 - 5"), a slightly dumbed-down Mudvayne ("Join the Scene," "Show Me Your Real Darkness") and, more obviously, a warmed-over approximation of Fear Factory's industrialized throb'n'crunch, singer Lars Vognstrup (replaced by Kasper Thomsen after the recording of Confusion Bay) doing a spot-on imitation of Burton Bell's growl-to-croon dynamic. While Raunchy's songwriting ethic is solid throughout, the big choruses tend to be overly polished, recurring techno blips and bleeps lend too much fat to the band's meaty guitar-based sound, and, truth be told, Confusion Bay is only vaguely inspiring when it comes to riff and lyric. Maybe it's the band's lack of originality or its painfully lame moniker, but Raunchy adheres to too many dated nu-metal and industrial metal cliches. Fans of such genres who didn't get tired of those sounds in the 1990s might extract more pleasure from Raunchy, who will likely get a shrug of indifference from more selective listeners. ~ John Serba

Product Details

Release Date:	10/06/2009
Label:	Metal Mind Productions
UPC:	5907785035225
Rank:	86763

Tracks

1. Join the Scene
2. I Get What I See
3. Summer of Overload
4. Watch Out
5. 9-5
6. Show Me Your Real Darkness
7. Confusion Bay
8. The Devil
9. Insane
10. Morning Rise and a Friday Night
11. Bleeding #2

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Raunchy   Primary Artist
Jesper Kvist   Bass
Jeppe Christensen   Keyboards,Vocals (Background)
Lars Christensen   Guitar
Lars I Lommen Vognstrup   Vocals
Morten Toft Hansen   Drums

Technical Credits

Jesper Kvist   Composer
Jeppe Christensen   Composer,Lyricist
Jacob Hansen   Mixing,Producer
Jesper Tilsted   Composer,Lyricist
Lars Christensen   Composer
Morten Toft Hansen   Composer,Lyricist
Lars Vognstrup   Composer
Raunchy   Composer,Producer