Regardless of Me
Black Flower Blossom

It is black flowers that blossom when Italian band Regardless of Me comes up with a new release, an album that looks pretty chaotic if you judge it by its cover. The band was formed by Mr Dark, a reviewer guessed he had a really stupid name, so he took that silly moniker. I have the theory that he has a pretty uncommon name that can easily be traced to him and he doesn’t want to be connected with Regardless of Me, I know I wouldn’t want that. Nevertheless, it is Mr Dark that is the person behind this band that has done a few albums already, I cannot say much about those but this one is a sad excuse for an album – I only know of us and one more review site that are critical when reviewing albums, and that other review site gave this album a really low rating, not even a full point.

Musically they call it trance metal or something like that, because of electronic dance elements but I have heard stuff with those elements done in a much better way that this. Here they combine kind extreme- or gothic metal influences with electronic stuff with really terrible female vocals and some guy that doesn’t sing very well. The sound is not very good, feels kind of cheap and amateurish and the songs just melt together into a mass of sounds. The few cool musical elements that are there are hidden in this cacophony of incoherent elements.

I often think that it has to be too easy to have your music released nowadays, labels used to be some kind of stamp of authority as they didn’t select any crappy album to release – but it isn’t like that anymore. The high number of bland albums is a clear indication of that, perhaps there are too many labels so the pool to select from is too small and therefore we get so much ridiculous stuff. This album is nothing really, it isn’t interesting in any way and should never have been released – it is just one of those poor albums that dilute the pool of music and makes it harder to find the gems. But it is even more than that because it is so bad that it makes you feel bad about wasting your precious hours of the short life you have on crap like it.

It is one of those releases where I ask myself why, like why didn’t the band hear how bad this album is? Why didn’t the label hear it? Why would anyone buy it? There isn’t a logical answer to any of these questions. No one who hear this album can avoid hearing how bad it is, and there is absolutely no reason to buy this album – none whatsoever. It is probably one of the most meaningless and bad albums I have ever reviewed for Hallowed, there isn’t many that get the lowest rating, but there is no other choice when it comes to this one.

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