Violet

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!

4 enjoyed

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.

Rating: 6/10 Best songs: Happy birthday

Idk fun kind of 80s vibes

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

Goth

Not my style but it’s pretty catchy

When the vocalist is called Chibi you know it’s 2004

Not bad

The cover art matches the album well. Both computery and lightly goth. Childish. Quite cool on first impression but the "deeper" content is a bit simplistic. I do like the idea of a bunch of songs with color names. They actually could have leaned into that a bit more.

Perhaps a bit ahead of its time at release, but woefully dated now. The lyricism feels somewhat cheesy in its attempt to be edgy, and the songwriting is firmly rooted in the Evanescence-like pop goth of the early aughts to the album's detriment. Did enjoy some of the guitar parts here and there, but the lack of any real mixing meant the tracks felt top-heavy without any nuance. Credit where credit's due, this LP does commit to its thematics and execute on them – just not something I would personally deem 1001-worthy.

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.

Has kind of an 80s girl power group thing going on but occasionally kicks it into a much harder gear. Cool!