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SINERGY – SUICIDE BY MY SIDE
2002 Nuclear Blast
Chick singers...I don't really care for them. But Sinergy is an exception. I love Sinergy and this new album, SUICIDE BY MY SIDE. Cool title, cool album. Once again, singer Kimberly Goss turns in a blistering performance. The band's debut album BEWARE THE HEAVENS was good, but in retrospect it was average after the intensity and power of TO HELL AND BACK. You may know that this band is a side project for some of the musicians, most notably Alexi Laiho of Children of Bodom and Marco Hietala of Nightwish. A former member was bassist Sharlee D'Angelo, who has played with just about everybody.
The songs that standout are "I Spit On Your Grave," "The Sin Trade," "Violated," and "Nowhere For No One." There is a ballad called "Written In Stone" that is cool, and a song called "Shadow Island" which Alexi Laiho contributes his death-style vocals to.

This is a good album. Not quite as good as TO HELL AND BACK, but crushing nonetheless. Guitars are the ruling part of the album, no doubt about it. The production is again very heavy and flawless. The drums on SBMS were again played by session drummer Tommi Lillman. He does a great job. He throws down on the double bass drums again. Sadly, this was his last recording with the band. Since releasing this album, the band hired and then had to fire new touring drummer Mats Karlsson. After joining the band during preparation for their world tour, he claimed he could not play all the band's material. So, once again they were forced into a Spinal Tap situation of looking for yet another drummer. Right now they are planning on touring the world with session drummer Janne Parviainen.

The artwork for the album is also really cool, maybe better than TO HELL AND BACK. It was designed by Thomas Ewerhard. The booklet has a series of pictures chronicling Kimberly going crazy in her bedroom and finally overdosing on pills! The rest of the band stands over her body as her spirit rises above them all...twisted!!

Bottom line– Well worth the $$.

DISCOGRAPHY:

BEWARE THE HEAVENS (1999) Nuclear Blast
TO HELL AND BACK (2000) Nuclear Blast
SUICIDE BY MY SIDE (2002) Nuclear Blast

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