This came out in 2003 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Every musical genre has its checkpoints. Nü-metal and shock-rock are no exception.
If you expect to get a pit full of kids to bash themselves bloody to your tunage — and then crawl to the merch table to buy your disc — you better deliver most (if not all) of the following: Crushing metallic power. Detuned low-neck guitar sludge. Subterranean basslines. Intricately precise jackhammer drumming. More tempo and time-signature changes than a Yes box set. Punishing industrial glam-slam. Gothic moodiness. Creepy lullabye samples. Fire-breathing vocals. Lyrics with more expletives than outtakes of The Osbournes. And, of course, good makeup and a horrific stage show. Well, send demonoid phenomenons Loco to the head of the line. On their malignant and destructive new album Dead World: A Story Of, this fierce foursome have it all. And they dish it out every bit as intensely and relentlessly and anybody who ever trod the boards at Ozzfest. If they keep this up, there’s no reason they shouldn’t find themselves there one day.
