{"id":22798,"date":"2014-12-29T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T00:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=22798"},"modified":"2014-12-29T23:10:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T23:10:17","slug":"album-review-633-deadly-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-633-deadly-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"6:33 – Deadly Scenes (2015) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

6:33
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\nKaotoxin (2015)<\/span>
Rating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Deadly Scenes<\/em> \u2013 the third full-length opus from Paris-based 6:33 \u2013 is an album I could have enjoyed immensely and would have probably found even more intriguing if I hadn\u2019t heard the mighty Mr. Bungle as a kid in the late 80s.<\/p>\n

6:33 is very much an experimental rock band of many shades and tones; specialising in a Mr. Bungle-styled epileptic, orgasmic sm\u00f6rg\u00e5sbord of sounds that incorporate jolting jazz melodies, stop-start progressive jerks and spins, thrashing hints married with comedy quirks and pop sensibility.<\/p>\n

Yep, it\u2019s all very Mr. Bungle even down to the vocal sways, rasps and choppy raps and at times it\u2019s a little too close to comfort, right to those sinister sneers and carnival-esque swirls and kaleidoscopic rants and heaves. In fact, there may be those who think this is<\/em> Mr. Bungle, and for me that\u2019s not a good thing and I\u2019m wondering just how people will see this release from a band that is aping to the extreme.<\/p>\n

Okay, so the big issue with Mr. Bungle is that they covered nigh on every musical mutation and bastardization to create what was an unfairground of weirdness, and 6:33 is replicating it rather than taking snippets and evolving from it. I just get a feeling that even with the titles (\u2018Ego Fandago\u2019 for one) these guys have spent way too much time listening to Mr. Bungle\u2019s 1999 California<\/em> opus, because whether it\u2019s the sense of a David Lynch-ian drama, the circus suspense or those knee-jerk toons and vocal sighs it\u2019s Mike Patton down to a tee.<\/p>\n

In a sense I\u2019m seeing and hearing Deadly Scenes<\/em> as a novel idea, and one that is instantly sweet upon the tongue, eyes and ears, because over its ever-changing scenery if I had a pound \/ dollar for every Mr. Bungle comparison I\u2019d be a wealthy man by the time opening track \u2018Hellalujah\u2019 has spun out of sight like a drug-fuelled crazy clown. From that fuzzing bounce to the overall zany atmosphere, the more I listen the more I become aggravated by the mimicry, and I\u2019d love to hear what Mr. Patton has to say on the matter. Sure, we can all be influenced by such former glories, but to replicate it to such a degree is nigh on laughable and often a little too cringe-worthy for the stomach to handle.<\/p>\n

Sure, the talent here cannot be ignored \u2013 more so in that the press release states quite clearly that there\u2019s a nod to Mike Patton as well as Devin Townsend and Tim Burton \u2013 but it\u2019s a treat that wears thin all too quickly. <\/p>\n

One gets the impression from 6:33 that the whole fa\u00e7ade created is one that hides a big in-joke that us kids will never understand, but I just feel like I\u2019m in the presence of a teenager who just thinks he\u2019s the weirdest at the party when in fact he\u2019s just the most annoying. In fact, while I can in the short term revel in the raging go-go mania of \u2018I\u2019m A Nerd\u2019 with its hoarse raps, or the dark fantasy of \u2018Modus Operandi\u2019 I just feel like I want to pull vocalist Rorschach to one side and ask him why on earth he has spent the entire album imitating Patton?<\/p>\n

The saddest aspect about the whole cotton-candy drama is the fact that there are some glimmers of promise, such as the opening to the \u2018Modus Operandi\u2019, but time and time again the Bungle obsession lumbers in the room, whether in the form of the aforementioned \u2018Ego Fandango\u2019 or the sprawling \u2018Lazy Boy\u2019, which admittedly is a tad more cosmic than Bungle. However, for every glint of hope there\u2019s that jarring elephant which overstays its welcome. Maybe it\u2019s the vocal style which plasters the record that makes the whole affair so Patton-drenched, but then again those start-stop-start animations do not help either.<\/p>\n

Deadly Scenes<\/em> comes to a close with the title track \u2013 a 13-minute self-indulgent magnum opus which again brings to mind Mr. Bungle at its most epic (\u2018Dead Goon\u2019) \u2013 and then the sugary taste has worn off, leaving me with a foul taste in my mouth and a huge sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

6:33Deadly Scenes Kaotoxin (2015)Rating: 6\/10 Deadly Scenes \u2013 the third full-length opus from Paris-based 6:33 \u2013 is an album I could have enjoyed immensely and would have probably found even more intriguing if I hadn\u2019t heard the mighty Mr. Bungle as a kid in the late 80s. 6:33 is very much an experimental rock band […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1545,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1545","category-album-ep-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22798"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22804,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22798\/revisions\/22804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}