Hospital is a full-force metal band with abrasive riffs, powerful vocals, positively explosive drums, and a never-ending sweep of talent and effectiveness throughout the album, consisting of thirteen songs.
The album begins with a gasp, then a fifteen second scream backed by the best riff on the album (one of the coolest riffs I’ve heard all year, actually). “Feel This,” the inaugural track, then weaves back and forth from a long-winded scream to softer desperate vocals, then back again, ebbing and flowing.
As does the entire album, seeping to and fro like a pendulum encountering anger and power on one side of its sway and angelic harking on the other. There are numerous great songs here, from the first track “Feel This,” to the mood-swaying fourth track “Hive,” to the Slipknot-inspired sixth track “Not Now,” to a more romantic metal seventh track “Sorrow,” to the thirteenth track “Every Word You Say” that begins with the now trendy chant. Not to mention every song in-between.
I’m generally a pretty picky music fan, especially of the metal genre, but Hospital has put together a series of great tracks that never cease to sway from heaviness to whimsical verses of poetry and soft guitars. Their music isn’t necessarily anything altogether new to the metal genre, but it doesn’t much matter when you’re able to take the old style of composing and raise the bar. Kudos, Hospital, for a sweet album of positive metal, which will likely appeal to fans of such acts as Gryp, KoRn, Deftones, Society’s Finest, early Zao, Mindrage, and Six Feet Deep.
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