Bullet Treatment – The Mistake

Oh, how I’ve put off writing about this album. Procrastination seems to be running my life lately, so it’s no surprise that this would take so long to get to. In all fairness though, I have been extremely busy with work, constant shows, plus various other little things I’ve had to do constantly. It really hasn’t left me with a lot of time to write, being that in my free time I simply don’t want to do anything strenuous. I understand that this is a far cry from a valid excuse, but I don’t really feel like doing anything about it.

If you’ve never heard Bullet Treatment before, they can quite accurately be compared to The Distance, or at least The Distance of old (the good ol’ Bridge Nine days, not this newest poppy abortion of an album they’ve wretched from the near barren uterus of the music biz). The songs are extremely fast (the whole cd only lasts 23 minutes), they lack breakdowns, and they’re heavily guitar driven. The music is fairly stripped down, there’s no fancy guitar solos or crazy riffing, no chest rupturing double kick patterns, and no bass lines to stun the mind. The music is all about keeping up the rhythm, which is extremely fast. But one must keep in mind that a blistering pace in every song has its downfalls, for one, none of the songs really sound much different and that makes it hard to pick out a favorite. The song Friday Night is pretty much the only break in the pace for the whole album and by all rights is a pretty decent/favorite track of mine.

I was a little disappointed to see that the album booklet didn’t really contain much. Possibly some of the most half-assed artwork I’ve ever seen, the cover is of feet, presumably the feet of a corpse in a mortuary. There is nothing really inside besides thanks to the people who helped this record happen. Coincidentally, the thanks were in a pale dark red color with a black background, which made reading it very difficult. There were no lyrics to be found, so I can’t really judge the content of the songs. The vocalist also sings fairly incoherently like most hardcore bands and I simply don’t have it in me to listen to every song dozens of times to pick up a few mysterious words/meanings.

All in all, this is a pretty decent album, I’ll admit, I don’t listen to it that much. If I happen to be listening to my MP3 player and one of their songs comes on I’ll usually listen to it. It’s just that this band becomes very over-bearing to listen to all at once. I did manage to get through the whole thing a few times though, which is rare. Usually when I get something like this, I listen to say 7/10 tracks and then claim I listened to the last three and just assume they’re the same (it has yet to let me down). But nonetheless, this is a pretty decent album and it might not hurt to go out and buy or at least download.