The Sky Will Fall Down on You

With a name like Rock Kills Kid, your band has plenty to live up to. But the band isn’t a thrash metal band, instead on the band’s debut album Are You Nervous? there are syth beats that would have fit in well during the early 80’s. Sound like another “Killer” band? Well so does this album.

To be fair not every song on the album sound like as if it were created a Killers cover band. The throbbing base line that starts off Paralyzed is as innovative as anything of Hot Fuss. But after that it digresses into what would have been leftovers on the latter’s album. Well without the wit and more depressing songs and goes as far as saying “All God’s children are evil” in the aptly titled Life’s a (Expletive Deleted). Um, yeah, enough for escapism in music. Sadly that is one of the more uplifting messages of the album.

When it comes down to it, once you get past the innovative first track, all you are getting is a second rate Killers album but without the entertaining part. Add to that The Killers themselves are basically derivative of 80’s syth-pop bands like New Order and Rock Kills Kid is to that genre what 98º were to the boy band era. Maybe the lead singer of Rock Kills Kid can look forward to a lucrative reality television career in between overlooked albums.

Song to Download - Paralyzed

Are You Nervous? gets a on my Terror Alert Scale.