Livid are another of the crop of bands coming out of California, and
they currently have a demo available with the title of 'For the Hearing
Impaired', and consists of 3 tracks of music which seems to fit in with
the current Machine Head, Rage Against The Machine, Korn style. So that
means, according to the Kerrang! school of labelling, that it's New
Metal.
Anyway, Livid are:
The first track, Failure, starts of with a slow, Machine Head
style grind and groove, before giving way to a Rage style vocal,
seemingly dealing with the failure of the dream of parents to mould
their child into the package they desire, via religious baiting. At
least that's my take on it.
The second track, Breathe, shows that the band have the capacity
to open up more of their own identity. Sizzo sings on this one , as
opposed to the rapping sort of style that often seems to dominate bands
at the moment. And it sounds good for it, a smoother Machine Head sort
of thing.
The final track, Shallow is possibly the most Korn sounding one
on offer, and caps off a demo that is pretty good. Fans of the bands
mentioned will probably like it. It's got enough going for it that I
look forward to hearing more stuff from the band.
For more info on the band, and to get hold of a demo, you could either
write:
Mark Thompson @ MA Entertainment, 5036 Coldwater Canyon, Suite 201,
Sherman Oaks CA 91423, or, you can go to the web site and order it via
that: http://come.to/livid
Hopefully there may be a mini interview either in the next issue, or in
one in the near future. The band should also be recording again in
May/early June.
Thanks to Jen for pointing out that it's Vaypa, not Vapya as it says on the demo.