![]() ![]() Total playing time 28 MINUTES and 41 SECONDSĪll instrumental as always! Yep, still true despite being a live album Social review comments | Review Posted Monday, Septem| Review this album | Report (Review #2788323)Įverything played NOT by BUCKETHEAD. ![]() Luckily there aren't a lot of vocal-filled BH albums so i doubt this will be a trend. Another glaring reality is that the material here makes many of the more recent PIKEs sound like generic crap. While i was expecting to hate this instrumental album i was pleasantly surprised that it works somewhat although i still much prefer the original. It seems odd to find an all-instrumental pick of tracks of a 17-year old album but considering BH just lost a bunch of expensive guitars perhaps he's cashing in to replace them. This release is sort of cheating in the fact that both "Nottingham Lace" and "Shen Chi" were already instrumentals on the original ENTER THE CHICKEN so really there are only five stripped down vocalless selections. Actually there are a few vocals featured on this but only on the spoken word sample starting "Botnus," one of BH's most popular live tunes and for great reason, this one showcases BH's guitar shredding abilities as well as a serious riffing machine. This one is missing the "Intro," "We Are One," "Three Fingers," "The Hand" and a short "Interlude." It does feature the track "Shen Chi" which was only featured as a bonus track on later editions of ENTER THE CHICKEN. This one doesn't feature twelve tracks like the original ENTER THE CHICKEN but rather only seven. The original is one of my favorite older BUCKETHEAD releases and the fact he teamed up with so much talent was a major plus, something sorely lacking in the PIKE series. Having said that even though i wasn't keen on listening to this, i have to admit that these tracks do indeed make decent instrumentals even if not as awesome as were with the myriad vocalists that appeared on the original ENTER THE CHICKEN. I've never been a fan and i almost always ignore such releases as they are nothing more than cash in on the diehards endeavors. Honestly i don't see the point in instrumental versions of albums that feature lyrics. Unlike the original album which was released on Serj Tankian's Serjical Strike label, this one is only available on BH's Bandcamp age as a lossless digital recording. ENTER THE CHICKEN INSTRUMENTALS has been released outside of the PIKE series and is sort of the companion album for the original ENTER THE CHICKEN album which was released all the way back in 2005. Social review comments | Review Posted Tuesday, Decem| Review this album | Report (Review #2871119)Īnd for the 22nd release of BUCKETHEAD in the year 2022, the chicken lover throws another curve ball and revisits an old friend only in all instrumental form. No wonder that few if any have bothered even giving a single rating to the wasteland of live Pikes but these newer studio Pikes are even worse. The only thing worth DECORATING with this lump of caca is the trash can.īH seems to think this is amusing? Seems like his legend is being replaced by an image of irrelevance since even the cream of the crop lately is rather ho hum compared to the legion of new music on the scene. I would give this ZERO stars if possible so i'll have to give it as few as possible in zero's stead. This one is so bad i would truly consider this to be on the playlist of hell. I've grown tired of BH's never-ending stream of mediocrity and downright rubbish as even the more adventurous cool prog metal Pikes have become nothing more than recycled been-there, done-that affairs. There have been many awful Pikes but i do believe this is the most awful of all. It's like a torture device for interrogation purposes during war time P.O.W. Just when you think this guy can't deliver something more nauseating than before, he continuously surprises.ĭECORATING is basically a continuous 30-minute recycled loop of clean guitar. Just in time for Christmas, BUCKETHEAD has released a nauseating coal-in-the-stocking crapbomb of a Pike for its 400th edition titled DECORATING. One problem these days is that the gems seem to have ceased while the lame crap continues to flow like a broken spigot. ![]() After a tidal wave of live Pikes, BUCKETHEAD has finally returned releasing a torrent of substandard studio Pikes with the occasional gem to be found. ![]()
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