This side project by Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington is a grim affair, with hackneyed post-grunge arrangements propping up pity-poor-me sentiments telegraphed in song titles like "My Suffering" and "Crawl Back In" ("Sometimes I cry/Sometimes I feel like I want to die," Bennington wails). Ashes is slightly redeemed by ballads like "In the Darkness," which bears a resemblance to the winning emo turn Linkin Park took on the Rick Rubin- produced Minutes to Midnight (2007). But the album is oddly inert, lacking both the brute force and big choruses that raised Linkin Park to rap-rock godhead status.
-JODY ROSEN
(Posted: Oct 13, 2009)
Dead By Sunrise got my sox this Easter Mourning. Gotta love that God head sound. Even though people don't see whats in front of them, believe their are those that do see clearly that love threw the sounds and feelings of life will pull you threw the worst of times.
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'
A hardo is a person who tries extremely hard at everything. Most times a hardo will try very hard at things that do not require excessive effort. For example, sports practices, gym class, etc.
Wow did you see Jack at practice today? What a hardo!