BLACK TIDE ARE ALL GROWN UP, STILL NOT GOOD
Kids grow up so fast these days! I remember a time not that long ago when Black Tide vocalist/guitarist Gabriel Garcia was just some downtrodden, monosyllabic kid trying to rebel by wearing a t-shirt that said “VAGINA” on it. And now here we are, three years later, and suddenly he looks like Matt Heafy, Jr., with huge plugs in his earlobes and a giant sleeve tat.
Alas, while Garcia may look more metal than ever, his band is still not good, if last year’s “Bury Me,” and now their new video, “Walking Dead Man,” are any indication. But if you’ve been searching for the most popular mainstream metal album of 2003, then Black Tide’s latest, Post Mortem (Shouldn’t it be called Pre-Mortem? Os it that too prophetic?), should be right up your alley.
The “Walking Dead Man” video isn’t embeddable, but you can check out it by clicking on Mr. Garcia’s face below. Be forewarned: You’ll have to sit through an unbearable thirty-second preview of some movie where Jim Carrey adopts CGI penguins in order to watch it. So it’s like eating an appetizer of shit just to get a main course of diarrhea.
Post Mortem comes out August 23.
-AR
