{"id":7634,"date":"2012-10-18T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=7634"},"modified":"2013-06-01T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T14:36:34","slug":"album-review-stone-sour-house-of-gold-and-bones-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-stone-sour-house-of-gold-and-bones-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"STONE SOUR – House Of Gold & Bones: Part 1 (2012) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

STONE SOUR
House Of Gold & Bones: Part 1<\/strong><\/span>
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\nRoadrunner (2012)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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With Slipknot slowly on the road to a full return, it\u2019s not particularly surprising to see a new Stone Sour record. <\/p>\n

House Of Gold & Bones<\/em> is a two-part journey that follows the story of someone at the \u201ccrossroads of his life\u201d as questions of mortality begin to spring up. This is the first half of the set, with the second to be released in 2013. The album is produced by David Bottrill (Tool \/ Muse \/ Staind), a wise choice when trying to develop an album around a central concept. <\/p>\n

House Of Gold & Bones: Part 1<\/em> starts off in a strikingly solid way. The first handful of tracks remind me a lot of the aggressive hard rock that dominated the band\u2019s Come What(ever) May<\/em> album (2006). \u2018Gone Sovereign\u2019 and \u2018Absolute Zero\u2019 kick back and forth between a devastating rock track, and a more creative modern rock sound with tremendous ease.<\/p>\n

\u2018Last Of The Real\u2019 and \u2018RU486\u2019 try to take it even heavier but, the cold hard fact is, while Corey Taylor is a great singer, he\u2019s terrible at trying to sound like the tough guy and he does way too much of that on the aforementioned tracks. Both songs sound completely contrived and drag the album down a good two notches because they don\u2019t fit at all musically. <\/p>\n

The band head in a more positive direction though with some more radio-friendly tunes. Whether you appreciate the big, smooth, anthem sound or not it\u2019s undeniably what Stone Sour is best at. \u2018A Rumor Of Skin\u2019 is a killer track both lyrically and musically as the main character tries to decide where to go \/ what to do to get out of the mental prison he is in. \u2018The Travelers, Pt. 1\u2019 and \u2018… Pt. 2\u2019 are top tier moments as well. They are very introspective both musically and lyrically and certainly among the more creative musical things the band have offered to date. <\/p>\n

For me, the bombastic downward spiral of \u2018Influence Of A Drowsy God\u2019 is the spotlight song. With thick guitars and an almost psychedelic sound, the song really captures an atmosphere of questioning and a feeling of wanting a release… any kind of release. The song ebbs and flows through stomping metal, fist-pumping hard rock, and introspective modern rock all in the span of four minutes and 29 seconds. This song really represents all the best points of the album in one shot, causing me to wonder why it didn\u2019t lead the album off.<\/p>\n

This is easily Stone Sour\u2019s best album to date. It\u2019s not perfect, but the vast majority of it is equal parts interesting and powerful. Taylor and company do a great job of making you feel what they feel on this one. If they would just give up pretending to have metal tendencies they could really take Stone Sour over the top. The weak heavy parts are like drain clogs that you just have to push through so the album can find its flow again. All in all though, there are some great, great songs here. <\/p>\n

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

STONE SOURHouse Of Gold & Bones: Part 1 Roadrunner (2012)Rating: 8\/10 With Slipknot slowly on the road to a full return, it\u2019s not particularly surprising to see a new Stone Sour record. House Of Gold & Bones is a two-part journey that follows the story of someone at the \u201ccrossroads of his life\u201d as questions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,413],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-stone-sour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634","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=7634"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12053,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634\/revisions\/12053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}