Released: 2005
Frankly, this album was really disappointing. The promo material that came with it described Brand New Sin as "an example of everything right about hard rock" and the albums opens with an absolute killer called "Arrived" that had me thinking this was going to be a Skid Row for the new millennium. It was immediately after this however that everything turned to shit.
"The Loner" is dreck of the worst order, just meaningless, repetitive and boring crap. After that, almost anything would have been better, and Recipe for Disaster does improve. Rarely does it lift beyond the standard generic modern hard rock sound of the past decade though, and nothing like "Arrived" appears anywhere else. If that had happened, Recipe For Disaster would have been a pretty decent album. As it is, singer Joe Altier is a deadringer for Chad Kroger most of the time and the rest of the band just sound like a hevaier version of Nickleback with rather more inspired lead guitar work. Every now and then they show an edge and put up something that sounds like real attitude, but it's not often enough and overall Recipe for Disaster is just not that interesting.
"Arrived" is awesome, though.
- Arrived
- The Loner
- Brown Street Betty
- Running Alone
- Freight Train
- Vicious Cycles
- Another Reason
- Days are Numbered
- Once in a Lifetime
- Dead Men Walking
- Gulch
- Wyoming
Rating: 35%
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