Fall River sound a bit like a bad version of Dillinger Escape Plan - though thoroughly boring with less technical skill and flair. At least it's a little different from the bulk of f**king sh*t. But we'll get to that. Rise Against gives us a decent melodic punk track - which isn't too bad considering the genre. The weak vocals still get to me a bit.

Buckethead & Serj Tankian… Now that's a bloody weird. They've got a few interesting riffs, and it's certainly very different. Reminds me at times of Mike Patton's work with Dillinger escape plan - just with reduced coherency and vision. Still a welcome deviation from the norm. I think if these two sat down and really worked on a collaboration album they could bring something really unique to the table.

The Bronx is a screaming hardcore band. The vocals are a tad monotonous (you've gotta vary your screams there buddy). And you've still gotta hand it to Avenged Sevenfold, they've got some talent - it's just not my cup of tea. Some of the melodic passages make me cringe, but they can pull out some decent solos. Blood Simple play some horror nu-metal kind of stuff, which is pretty bad (but compared to the worst on this compilation it's a goddamn timeless epic). Don't let it fool you though, this still sucks. it still sucks. The In Flames track is just depressing. How far they've fallen. Now, I gotta warn you - everything from this point onwards deteriorates into a total rant about the absolute f**king sh*t someone decided would complement the aforementioned passable songs.

We kick off with a Mudvayne and Norma Jean track. You know whats funny? Those two bands sound kinda the same - just real crappy chugging metalcore come nu-metal. Uninspired. And Mudvayne have been getting away with rehashing the same song for the last two or three albums. It Dies Today f**king suck. Just some watered down, melodic crap with no balls and no interesting riffs. Funeral for a Friend is nothing more than some more clean sung bullsh*t that is utterly horrible.

Andrew W.K. then rears his ugly head with some dancy-rock song that sounds like a horrible, horrible caricature of Queen. Yuck. Armor for Sleep then rock up with some emotional sh*t about the immature and superficial problems little girls and boys have. "You'll never be alone again, isn't that what you want? I'm right here with you. I know you feel me next to you." How astute. Isn't it sad that's the best these little sheltered emo f**ks can come up with? "My girlfriend left me, I'm oh-so-sad, I slit my wrists because I was raped by my dad." Get some depth people - there's more to life than your pathetic little girlie problems.

Then comes Scary Kids Scaring Kids. What total and utter sh*t with a fittingly stupid name. This track sports some terrible vocals - you know, like when guys who have absolutely no sense of melody or power in their voice, but still try and over-sing in an expressive and sensitive way, and you can just picture them crying along at night when you sneak in their room and jam a pick-axe through their eyesocket? This group is clearly a closet boy-band who has decided to market themselves as 'alternative' buy adopting a DIY goth-kit.