Search - Five Pointe O :: Untitled

Change in band members

Steve Cruise | Toms Brook, VA United States | 12/04/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Ok, to start off I'd like to say that this album is great! One of my favorites. But I'm not here to review; I'd like to update everyone on the status on the band. They did have a change in the band members, I'm not sure about all of them but I know the lead singer has left. A couple (or maybe just one, or maybe 3?) other people/person left and the backup vocalist (who moved to lead) was replaced by his cousin. The have a new name: Burning Down, but DO NOT confuse them with the band at burningdown.com which is a radio friendly love song band (dunno what they're gonna do about the same name thing... but oh well) I'm not sure where, but it is possible to get a demo cd, they don't have a full one out yet. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fivepointe0 , there you will be able to find up-to-date information on this superb band :P Thanks everybody, now go join that group!! These guys need all the support they can get, going from an underground band to a completely new, underground one... which, if I heard correctly, is ever harder than Five Pointe O was. Can't wait to hear them for myself..."

That's what I call music

vlad | Moscow, Russia | 06/05/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Don't pay too much attention to the small number of reviews written on the cd by this unique band; that happens time to time: a great music gets slightly unappreciated, and less known than really deserves. It's only a question of time (or production/promotion).The more important thing is the cd is one of the best of the recent times, i.e. for those surely who're into nu-metal, and all the rest of the heavy rock.Keyboards, guitars, and drums do a common work here perfectly, creating a complex, original, and highly impressive sound. Expressively heavy, at times experimentally unique, varying in tempo, this music is a level above what most of the modern nu-metal bands produce. The strong and highly diverse vocals complete the whole picture of the beautiful sound created by the talented band.Stand-outs are not that easily distinguishable, since most of the tracks are equally impressive and well-built. Double X Minus, King of The Hill, Freedom?, Sympathetic Climate Control, Untitled, Breathe Machine, and, finally, The Infinity, all of thes songs, being different, present a high quality musical work that the band can really be proud of.
A little doubt may arise after listening to the very experimental Aspire, Inspire, but has experimental ever meant annoying? Even if it has, that's not the case, thank God.In short, that's not a pop-metal, that's a beautiful, serious, and professional work done by Five Pointe O. That's what we all can call MUSIC."

At times dizzyingly intense, but madly uneven

TheJukeboxLoser | jersey | 09/09/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Five pointe o when thye came out with their lone cd back in 2002 it gave one last glimmering light for nu-metal which by the then was almost dead. The albums manages to blend many combinations of nu-metal, hardcore punk, and synthcore. ITs showcased into at times catastrophic heights on cuts like the "infinity" and "double X minus". but what fails them to keep the torch going is the lack focus. the arrnagments are madly uneven as is the spazy Zach Dela Rocha-eque front man, spitting out political and mythical-eque lyrics. The keyboards do a nice job to the chaotic mess adding atmospherics and histronics. but the songs never get heavy or intense enough. Thr riffage isnt pactiaulrly memorable although sometimes it works righton tracks like "art of cope" and "syndrome down" and on the aforementioned "infinity". IT was an interesting arch at the time of its release but looking at it now far more talented bands have come in there wake. It was an earnest atemtp at the time but it looks dated and tiny to look at it today"