Systematic
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Somewhere In Between , 4/10
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(Translation by/ Tradotto da Gianluca Mantovan)

I Systematic sono una band heavy-metal della Bay Area di San Francisco capitanata dal vocalist Tim Narducci e dal chitarrista Adam Ruppel che debutto' con l'album Somewhere in Between (Elektra, 2001), contenente hard-rock di forte impatto, agonizzante e viscerale, riabilitato talvolta da melodie enfatiche (Dopesick, Pitchblack) ma basato perlopiu' su riff crudi e primitivi (uno dei migliori, Return to Zero e' un incrocio fra You really got me dei Kinks e Paranoid dei Black Sabbath mentre i piu' originali sono il burrascoso, sincopato e blueseggiante Mailbomb e il rombo a cadenza panzer di Thick Sin). Bed sores, Glass jaw e If only sono le ballate: di esse, due sono di troppo. Il lungo psicodramma Somewhere in between non e' sufficiente a riabilitare un album talmente stereotipato.

Systematic is a heavy-metal band from the San Francisco Bay Area led by vocalist Tim Narducci and guitarist Adam Ruppel that debuted with the album Somewhere In Between (Elektra, 2001), a collection of hard-hitting, agonizing, visceral hard-rock, occasionally redeemed by an emphatic melody (Dopesick, Pitchblack), but mostly grounded in primal, raw riffs (one of the best, Return To Zero, is a hybrid of the Kinks' You Really Got Me and Black Sabbath's Paranoid, while the most original may be found in the stormy, syncopated, bluesy Mailbomb or in the galloping panzer-grade rumble that jumps out of Thick Skin). Bed Sores, Glass Jaw and If Only are the ballads, two too many. The lengthy psychodrama Somewhere In Between is not enough to redeem an album so full of stereotypes.
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