Think crunchy flakes of electro buzz and Marilyn whine. Actually, a lot of the early Manson work oozes from the "Dope" delivery. My CD came in a plastic ziplock bag (get it Dope?), so no pictures of this bark and spit wound. Politics and other easy targets serve as lyrical depth and it's sincere enough when filtered through the 17 layers of distortion. The guitars are pushed in their crunch and serve up sticky quick riffs and do a good job of pulling back and letting other elements drive (usually thick drums and drum machine sampler beats). Any Orgy/Marilyn fan should dig this and it has a more direct simplicity in its generation of hit and run pummels.

Yeah, I know this is another electro pushed psuedo metal band, but they offer song after song of reasonably catchy verses drenched with percussive elements (drums, electronic whines, samples...whatever). The MM comparisons are hard not to hear, but theatrics aside, there is some well-worked material here.

Track #4 has a smooth bass line that starts out the song before a battery of guitar, and again utilizes the bass line for verses. The singer has an occasional growly Dave Mustaine whine when he's not screaming - and it's not very flattering, but masked well by all the processing.

"Dope's" sound in general is very processed and machine like, so the clip and paste of their structures makes sense. You've most certainly heard this brand before and it holds respect for what it creates with its influences, but is choking on some of its own regurgitation.