| Breaking Benjamin, before i started delving into music deeper, was one of my favorite bands. Those days, as you can probably pressume, are long gone. Even then, however, there is something about this band that makes me still like them and(*le gasp*) occassionally listen to them. Sure, it's largely just a bunch of overexposed, comercialized music that serves as little more than an introduction to other, deeper and more musically talented musicians(and for crap AMVs, but that's another story), but if you ask me, that isn't necessarily bad, and among the several mainstream bands that serve that purpose, this is one of the better ones in my personal opinion(i mean really now, are we gonna around saying this is as bad or worse than fucking Nickelback?). It has a darkly mood(as far as those kinds of bands go, anyway), the intrumentation is isn't half bad(i'd go ahead and say it's good), the vocalist has talent and the lyrics are ok. It isn't anything above a 3 when you put against many other musicians, but for it's own mainstream species, and from my own personal bias(and nostalgia), it ain't that bad either. |
