CD Review: Mushroomhead - "The Righteous and the Butterfly" (Megaforce Records)
It’s about both the journey and the destination on
Mushroomhead’s The Righteous and the
Butterfly, an album that really does save the best for last. Bucking the
norm of putting your best foot forward, much of the band’s eighth studio album
comes during the second half of the record, which isn’t to say you should be
bypassing the first eight or so tracks. The
Righteous and the Butterfly is
littered with classic Mushroomhead output – flat out chugging metallers ( “Our
Apologies,” Devils Be Damned”) - interspersed with cuts seemingly plucked off
the next Nightmare Before Christmas
soundtrack (“Qwerty”). “Son of 7,” a wonderful display of stomping thrash
quarterbacked by epic leads that leap out of the speakers, seems lost in the
mix and buried on The Righteous and the
Butterfly. Also tucked away neatly in the latter stages of the album is the
cacophonous “Worlds Collide,” which finds the band dabbling in all things doom,
death, thrash, and symphonic metal, the haunting “Graveyard Du Jour,” which
plays like a chilling nursery rhyme used to scare children and “Out Of My
Mind,” just a straight up bad ass rock tune. On the contrary, the bands cover
of Adele’s “Rumor Has It” is just a mess - their well-remembered cover of Seal’s
“Crazy” this is not. When it comes to Mushroomhead’s The Righteous and the Butterfly, it’s not how its starts, it’s how
it finishes.
Grade: C+
Go Download: “Son Of 7”
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