SLAVES ON DOPE

Inches From the Mainline

Divine
rating icon 4 / 10

Track listing:

01. Brotherly Love
02. Pushing Me
03. I Can't Die
04. Fallout
05. Thanks For Nothing
06. Inches From The Mainline
07. No More Faith
08. Stick It Up
09. Why
10. Bitch Slap
11. Kafka Bug
12. Leader Of Losers


The first signing to Sharon Osbourne's Divine Records label, SLAVES ON DOPE are a generic, tuneless exercise in by-the-numbers pimprock that never manage to establish a sound of their own, coming across instead like a second-rate variation of all the trendy sounds that are popular on the L.A. rock scene.

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Originally from Montreal, California-based SLAVES ON DOPE are competent enough musicians, and their Thom Panunzio-produced album is certainly not lacking in the sonic department, featuring a production that is not a million miles removed from that of the DEFTONESAdrenaline CD. However, the group's testosterone-driven sound gets old very quickly, with vocalist Jason Rockman's largely one-dimensional screaming only occasionally interspersed with a more melodic approach, adding a small dose of dynamics to what is an otherwise texture-deprived offering.

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In the grand scheme of things, SLAVES ON DOPE is nothing but a minor-league player in an oversaturated scene that has been bled dry through the recent commercial success of the genre's forerunners. While I've heard much worse, Inches From The Mainline is simply not good enough to raise the band above the standards set by the bulk of their competition, and it doesn't bode well for SLAVES ON DOPE's chances of survival once the ongoing pimprock explosion has finally (and inevitably) blown over.

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