Provides what you already have, but if you haven't got enough of it, it is done very well.

For This Misery Garden, Sevendust might be just getting their first album out, people might have been keen to hear more of Korn and Ill Nino might have been seen as an interesting sound. This Swiss miss is grounded in Nu-Metal and grounded by it too.

Well produced to keep everything tight it may be, but the music we will have heard before, from the down-tuning and lucrative chorus of 'Emocide', through the glacial soundscape of 'Infantia' to 'Saving My Dreams For Another Day' and its attack of a verse, contemplative moments and keening guitar line; these can all be classified under two headings – ho and hum.

Okay, Okay, 'Down Here' accesses some Hard Rock sounds and the banging solo of 'Deliverance' is worthwhile; generally, though, The Misery Garden provides what you already have, but if you haven't got enough of it, it is done very well. Misery loves company. Will they get yours?

Steve Swift