Band:	Sonic Syndicate
Album:	We Rule The Night
Style:	Metalcore
Release date:	August 2010

01. Beauty And The Freak
02. Revolution, Baby
03. Turn It Up
04. My Own Life
05. Burn This City
06. Black And Blue
07. Miles Apart
08. Plans Are For People
09. Leave Me Alone
10. Break Of Day
11. We Rule The Night
12. Dead And Gone [bonus]
13. Perfect Alibi [Japanese bonus]

I consider myself an easy going guy. Nothing out of the ordinary can faze me (except maybe a bald Brittany Spears, or Pepsi-removing Dr. Pepper in various food joints, but that's another story?) except when I come across music so horrendous, so grotesquely pretentious that I have to play that shit over and over again, just to know if this is some kind of an inside joke, only to realize that I would have been much better NOT playing it. Well, guess what? I'm on barbiturates right now because of the mental trauma administered by an abomination of an album entitled We Rule The Night?

No one could have predicted such a fall from grace from Sonic Syndicate (though Fallen Angels is more appropriate in this instance). Boy o' boy, what on God's concrete earth ever happen to this bunch of guys? They used to play decent music once?fine, let's not dwell in the past, let's talk about the future, let's talk about now, let's talk about We Rule The Night. Firstly, I want to get the positives out of the way...the cover art is absolutely gorgeous! Their best by far. Okay, now I'm stuck?

We Rule The Night is possibly the worst album I've ever heard, period! Now that I've overcome my hysteria from the side effects, justification is in order; let's start with the songs themselves; some of the songs are so pedestrian you just begin to wonder what the hell is going on?! Songs such as "Beauty And The Freak" and "Turn It Up" will forever be etched on my memories, all for the wrong reasons, but the award surely goes to "Miles Apart" (I just can't stand the opening keyboards on this one!). Don't even get me started about the vocals! They are so exceptionally disjointed and horrible that you might as well go to myspace and listen to some of their songs for a good laugh. (Recent studies suggest that this kind of music is the perfect antidote for suicidal music perfected by Shining, hence Kvarforth hasn't committed suicide yet.) Even the workable songs (such as "Leave Me Alone") are utterly destroyed by the new kid, Nathan Biggs. Hogging all the spotlight from Richard, who is reduced to screaming aimlessly in the background, doesn't help as well (though I've never been a fan of his either, he was the most energized of the lot). I can understand if they are trying to present themselves to a wider audience, but releasing something this ridiculous is just beyond me?

So, Richard has left the band. Surprising? Hardly. With an album as bad as We Rule The Night, no one wants to put their reputation on the line. In the end, I'll put it to you as painless as possible, STAY AWAY FROM THIS ALBUM! Do yourself a favor. Give this to someone you hate, even then after careful consideration. If they rule the night, I am the greatest guy ever on this earth!