### The Sin Committee: Confess

#### 17/08/09 || Smalley

“Progressive metal”? Wha? This Dutch outfit have given themselves that vaunted label, but all I hear here is average, generic hard rock that, for the most part, would be at home on any mainstream rock station, and sounds pieced together from other bands (but at least they’re honest about that point on their website). The longest track here fails to break six minutes, and the song structures aren’t notably complex or experimental at all, so I don’t know why they think they can call themselves “prog metal”; it just ain’t true.

The clean vox on this EP are generic and somewhat whiny, and the harsh vox (don’t ask me why TSC thought that’d be a good idea) are laughably bad, probably the worst I’ve heard in my life (yeah, even worse than the guy from Disturbed). As for the bass, it’s too high in the mix and too rumble-y, sounding like the producer took the sound of a wobbly saw (that’s the name, right?) and turned its tone down to James Earl Jones depths. Just ridiculous. The drumming sounds nice, and is well-performed, but you’d better have something more than just that for me to praise, and while there are a few good moments here, most of this is just bland hard rock fodder. Since the band’s sound problems get in the way of me knowing how this songwriting would fare from a more competent band (but I doubt it’d be any better even then), I will give “Confess”…

- Information
- Released: 2009
- Label: Self-released
- Website: www.thesincommittee.com
- Band
- Joris: vocals
- Raymon: guitar
- Willem: bass
- Victor: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Confess
- 02. Serious Adverse Event
- 03. Straw Men
- 04. Regression of Faith
- 05. Four 2 One