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Violet is the second studio album by The Birthday Massacre. Originally released July 20, 2004 in Canada, it was later reissued October 25, 2004 in Europe through Repo Records, commercially released on August 9, 2005 through Metropolis Records (North America/UK), and Hellion Records (Brazil). The Metropolis reissue version includes four re-recorded and slightly reworked tracks from their Nothing and Nowhere album: "Happy Birthday", "Horror Show", "Video Kid" and "The Dream". The band's 2005 Blue DVD features a live performance of the title track Violet performed at the album release show in Toronto.
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Five Inch Nails Parrot-more Evian-essence Ain’t Ettiene
Violet is a rock album by The Birthday Massacre. It is the kid of rock with some electronic, shoegaze and emo influences. The singer sings with a little girl voice that gets on my nerves. What I do like are the whispered singing parts (f.e. in "Happy Birthday" and "Lovers End"). That is not enough to make it original and the compositions are average and all songs seem the same with the same guitar+synth sound.
Somewhat heavier electronic rock music, with pop-influences. Liked it a lot!
Didn’t think I was going to enjoy this as I read the reviews. I get the comparisons to Evanessence and Nine Inch Nails and some of that ilk, although The Birthday Massacre seems a little lighter than those groups. Maybe not my new favorite band but I did enjoy listening to it.
This is very cool. 4 stars.
Goth
Not my style but it’s pretty catchy
When the vocalist is called Chibi you know it’s 2004
Not bad
Parts of this are potentially intriguing - mood shifting, the often-annoying-yet-also-creative and intentional mood swings of the vocals, simplistic keyboard melodies over industrial "guitar" wall of sound... Alas I just don't connect with this at all. The song structures end up boring me and honestly that absurdly processed massive wall of guitar is really not my thing / too much. Points for a unique take on image/style and I kinda love their overall purple motif/artwork. 5/10 2 stars IMO: Belonged in the book? No.
Interesting but not something I’ll go back for more of
more parma than beauregarde #dnf
Am I allow to give negatives? I wish I could give negative. It is just so lame. A poor man's Evanessence (which is already just a terrible band). 1/5
Guhhhhhh. This was difficult for me because I'm going into this not liking it because this genre just isn't for me at all and it's always horrible to me and I fear this helped solidify that opinion. I absolutely hated the whispering in my ear while all chaos was breaking loose music wise. Like what even was happening. There was a singular cool moment where there were some cool sound effects but then got ruined again. Massacre is right.
The cover made me think this was some sort of Kingdom Hearts soundtrack or something. Overall I found it a bit dull. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 3/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No