Grounded

Grounded Artist: Xcarnation
Label: Avalon Japan
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4527516005580
ASIN: B000AMZ0KI


Release Date: 2005-09-29

Grounded


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Industrial Industrial
Categories | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music | Alt Industrial | Industrial Dance
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Categories | Rock | Styles | Music
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Alternative Metal Alternative Metal
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Tracks:

  1. Personal Antichrist
  2. Everlasting
  3. Without You
  4. Desperately Sad
  5. Reason to Believe
  6. Lucky Day
  7. Take a Deep Breath
  8. Coma White
  9. Willing to Wait
  10. Pictures

Album Details

Debut Album from the Rock Project by Turkish Musician Cenk Eroglu. Includes "Personal Antichrist", "Everlasting", "Without You", "Desperately Sad", "Reason to Believe", "Lucky Day", "Take a Deep Breath" and More.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Cenk is an impressive one man show.......2005-10-26

The Good
I feel it is my duty to inform you that if you are expecting something that sounds like Winger circa "Seventeen", you won't. You will however be getting more of sound that mixes Kip Winger's solo releases with Stabbing Westward (on NIN, but everyone has used that comparison). Don't misinterpret what I said to mean you will be disappointed, because you won't be. Unlike NIN, you don't have to solve a mathematical equation to figure out what the songs are about.

On "Personal Anti-Christ", Cenk uses effective songwriting techniques to covey his message that you may just be your own worst enemy. It's all Cenk on the industrial sounding melodies that accompany him too. A pulsing electronic drum sets the pace for "Everlasting" and is soon met with some fuzzy guitar riffs. Cenk's vocal delivery on the chorus is full-of emotional pain (as is the subject matter). Give Cenk some touching lyrics and a piano and you have yourself the killer ballad "Without You". It doesn't have too many words, but it doesn't need too.

"Reason to Believe" was penned by Kip Winger and he shares vocal duties with Cenk. Sonically, the music arraignment uses more of Cenk's Eastern influences. "Lucky Day" also draws upon the same influence in the way it employs Turkish string and percussion instruments. It still manages to keep an epic industrial feel to it. "Willing to Wait" has Kip Winger returning as the main songwriter and bass player. The track has darker tones and themes as compared to previous ones.

The Bad
Sadly, as good as this album is, it would have been better received ten years ago when industrial was the sound of the moment.

The Verdict

Music Album:

  1. Man Am I Brad ~ Everybody Uh-Oh
  2. Ride a Dove ~ Harry Pussy
  3. Crawling from the Wreckage ~ Wreckage
  4. Rival Schools United by Onelinedrawing ~ Rival Schools & Onelinedrawing
  5. Musica & Parole ~ Libra
  6. Real Gone
  7. Masters ~ Rick Wakeman
  8. Forever Days ~ Anandi
  9. Rockin Tonight
  10. Good Luck ~ My Friend the Chocolate Cake

Music Album

Music Album

Music

Diwan ~ Rachid Taha

Do It ~ Steve Grossman

Classic Jazz-Funk, Vol. 3 ~ Various Artists

2225 South High Street ~ Tomomi Taniguchi

20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Whitesnake ~ Whitesnake

Yodelling Songs of the Alps ~ Heidi

30 Years of Jembé: San Bissaba Foli ~ Adama Dram%C3%A9

Blue Fever

Edith Piaf ~ Edith Piaf

Rhythm ~ Kazami (Ft Sphere of Influence)