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The aggro-metal quintet's derivative album is less than the sum of its Xeroxed parts.

This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


“I’m real tired of the clones,” complains Lajon Witherspoon on this aggro-metal quintet’s sophomore CD. He’s a fine one to talk.

When you get down to it, Home is nothing but a carbon copy of Korn’s bottom-heavy riffs, Rage Against The Machine’s idealist furor and Alice In Chains’ murky metallurgy, all distilled into a flavourless concoction that somehow manages to be less than the sum of its parts. The single Denial isn’t just the only decent tune here — it also appears to be the state Sevendust are living in.