Review by Noir Mind for Static-X - Shadow Zone (2003)

For a newcomer to the industrial metal genre, it's hard to think of a more accessible and, I won't dare say it, "edible" album. Just as we used to google after playing NFS to find out who the geniuses were who composed "The Only", the new generation of teenage alternative lovers of the noughties will be among the first to listen to this album on Spotify. 

Many metal nerds will call it pop, but in fact, it has everything we love alternative industrial metal for: fat guitar riffs, tight mechanical rhythm section, driving vocals, and an abundance of keyboards, which creates a cyber-urban industrial atmosphere. We'd like to highlight the most incendiary tracks "Kill Your Idols", "Destroy All", and the epically melodic "So". 

Though Static-X with their eternal "Otsego..." semi-hits are not the most experimental and diverse band, but this time they managed to create an album full of hits for rhythmic and melodic head bobbing to them. Recommended to every newcomer of industrial metal. 7/10

P.S. My mother says that the beginning of the track "Control It" sounds like a door creaking. Have you noticed that too, or is she delusional?)