OPIATE: Distinctive Smile CD Promo. Promo CD in plastic sleeve, cover included (no back cover). Check all songs, whole album! Nu-Metal mix of FAITH NO MORE, LIFE OF AGONY, HELMET, DEFTONES. Highly recommended.

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All songs:

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mOlTWw1CFioEvB-nY51rk82XI1YS3MS7A&feature=gws_kp_album&feature=gws_kp_artist

Genre: Nu-Metal
Playing time: 46:39
Tracklist:
1. Dysfunction
2. Alone Again
3. Your Time
4. Jah
5. Burn
6. Drained
7. Huka Falls
8. Backlash
9. Suck The Truth
10. Distinctive Smile
11. I.Ai. Toofan
12. Alter Ego
13. Scarred

SAMPLES: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/distinctive-smile/id322087624

Destinctive Smile” can be arranged in the Nu-Metal corner, the pallet of influences is, however, anything else than reserved and pleases the maltreated by average hearing with each further run. OPIATE from Scotland seem to have no fears of contact with the most diverse styles in any phase of the album and so I already have to praise this band for their debut. Metal-influences of the sort FAITH NO MORE or early LIFE OF AGONY are woven likewise into the Songs, like loans from the Hardcore, Grunge, Rock or evenly Nu-Metal. Sounds pretty puzzling and hard to convert, yet OPIATE have accomplished to form a convincing whole out of all these puzzle parts.
They show ability of creating catchy melodies, but still they are really rocking and plowing the landscape like a bulldozer. No Hop- or Sports-Metal, how bad tongues tend to state, but quite seriously meant and suitable for headbanging monster riffs combined with creative grooves are screwing once again on the neck vertebrae of the listener. Additionally Justin Muir impresses with his variable singing, which combines again the most diverse tendencies in itself and is responsible for further alternation. You almost notice how much time they left passing by before releasing this debut.


For quite a long time, I thought about how to conceive OPIATE, because the material that on “Distinctive Smile” they produce is not quite a common thing. You can’t say that this is something out of the ordinary, but there is something about these OPIATE. Maybe if they looked for connections already in the name of the group, something could be deduced. If I had to simplify a lot, it would be enough to loosely cover OPIATE with a nu metal sticker and it’s painted over. Of course, the only thing that can be traced as a connecting element is the connection of styles, the expression and the resulting impression, but of course it is not possible to see everything in such a simplified black and white way. The important thing is to try to find something more, which is very easy to implement in the case of OPIATE. Like many others, OPIATE tries to combine hardness with melody. Already the introductory ?Dysfunction? is a blow with an open palm to the point that it might seem to someone that they overheated the start and are running out of breath and don’t come up with anything special, but the truth is somewhere else. ?Dysfunction? is an introduction as it should be, because if you encounter OPIATE for the first time like I did, you immediately have the opportunity to note the control panels between which OPIATE moves. Rough guitars and jumping rhythms alternate with freer passages, an almost death metal murmur alternates with rap singing and melodic vocals. On these building blocks, OPIATE base most of their compositions, but quite calmly we can find lighter or more song-like matters here, which in no way means that on “Distinctive Smile” we’ll find some hilarious laugh-out-loud hits for the radio. OPIATE belongs to the group of darker more melancholic groups. Personally, they remind me the most of HELMET or DEFTONES, but OPIATE can definitely do with their own ideas. In terms of sound, you can detect a rather unnecessarily prominent tin base and it cannot be denied that the overall impression would certainly benefit from a more pressurized, denser and more expressive sound. In order for the information about OPIATE to be more comprehensive, it is necessary to state at least a few basic facts from the biography. The band was founded in 1998 by two school mates Ian Jamieson and Justin Muir in the town of Annan. In a relatively short time, they recorded two demos, with which VISIBLE NOISE drew attention to themselves. In the middle of 1999, the bassist and drummer left the band, who were replaced by other classmates, but now from the university, bassist Chris Morris and drummer Ollie Wallace. In this line-up, they recorded a 7-song demo, which they successfully sold out. The group actively gave concerts around Carlisle, Cumbria, for example, or successfully participated in the skate festival in Whiteheaven civil hall. In April 2001 they signed to VISIBLE NOISE and recorded their acclaimed debut album at DEP INTERNATIONAL in Birmingham with producer Danny Spring /LOSTPROPHETS, SPUNGE, TRIBUTE TO NOTHING, SUFFRAJETS.

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