Broken Romeo - Temptation
2002 self released

Track Listing:
1.  I Know
2.  Out In The Cold
3.  Falling Down
4.  Temptation
5.  Goodnight
6.  Ashbury
7.  Low
8.  In You
9.  Darkside
10. Spill
11. Circus
12. Mirror Man
13. Surrounded

Line-Up:
Vocals:  James Turpin
Guitars:  Steve Turpin
Bass:  Loren Wessel
Drums:  Bill Strickland

Website:  www.brokenromeo.com

Horatio's Rating:  F
Average Album Rating:  F

Horatio's Review:
There's no other reason for me to review this other than to thoroughly dismantle it.  This doesn't really belong here, but when you're sent a CD by a band describing themselves as 'melodic alternative' there is bound to be repercussions.  To anyone perversely curious, these tools originate from Arizona and have so far released three albums, none of which bear repeating.  This band's pedigree is further lowered when they list bands they have opened for, including Social Distortion, Screaming Trees, Junkyard and the UK Subs.  This is the sound of 1993-1995 revisited, the band taking in large doses of Alice In Chains styled riffing, akin to fellow losers Further Lo.  There's nothing remotely original, just plain grunge copies, from undoubtedly the genre which destroyed rock music.  That these bastards continue it is an insult.  Why can't a bad thrash band send me a CD instead?  I always seem to get saddled with nu-metal/grunge atrocities.  Who's for some Scrapers? 
Horatio's Rating:  F