The Beyond - Crawl (1992)

Back in the early '90s quite a few people praised this UK band. Reviewers said that The Beyond were not just another funk metal band, but they were wrong. Like so many other bands of this ilk The Beyond, on this output anyway, churned out weak, lifeless funk metal that quickly becomes irritating after one too many bass slaps. Although 'Crawl' isn't anywhere near as cartoonish as say Ignorance's vile 'The Confident Rat' it still has that plastic sounding production and those smooth vocals which somehow grate in their ability to be soulful. It wasn't just an inadequacy of the UK bands to vomit out such allegedly vibrant material, Scatterbrain, FFW, and so many others across the world committed such a crime. '...Happy Endings' is juust The Strangler's 'Golden Brown' whilst 'Lead The Blind' and countless others drift by with no effect, all clearly hellbent on replicating the same godly soul that Faith No More produced on 'The Real Thing,' but it just doesn't woerk, it's false, pretend, and deserves inclusion to warn you away from it. Metal has always spawned a number of sub genre's,and that's great, but the funk trend really was one big wet lettuce. 4/10