Scapegoat "Zombie Dog"

Well, based on my initial impression of this record, I certainly expected more than I got. I mean, it's dubbed Zombie Dog and serves as a canvas for humorously bad cover art that depicts a fuzzy, bloodied-mouth dog. All signs pointed to it being ridiculous -- in a good sense of the word.

In reality, it's just ridiculously bad; a messy mish-mash of anything modern. You'll hear (if, for some reason, you decide to listen) The Used, My Chemical Romance, A Day to Remember, Fall Out Boy, Avenged Sevenfold, futuristic synths and God-awful rap-metalcore, among other things. To make matters worse, Zombie Dog is overwrought with effects and entirely overproduced. To make worse matters worse, the supposedly socio-political lyrics are generally dumb and shallow. This is a looong 52 minutes of totally direction-less cock rock for the current, less-than-discerning crop of teenagers.

So why am I even writing about Zombie Dog? Because it showed so much promise -- as zombie dogs always do -- and fell so frustratingly far from delivering. Scapegoat: before you try and be everything, be good at one thing. Ugh.

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