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What would you expect from a band that writes songs specifically for pro wrestling and was tapped for the Girls Gone Wild Rocks Tour? Personally (and I’m a wresting hater, just so you all know), I would expect mediocrity or worse. Effectively, that’s what we get in Rev Theory’s “Light it Up”.

Official song of the Detroit Red Wings, the album opens with “Hell Yeah”. The only decent track on the album, “Hell Yeah” opens with good, noisy guitar, a driving melody that reminds one a bit of Rob Zombie. The intro is really very good, infectious – it draws you in, makes you want to move, to rock out.

“Favorite Disease” is not so metal-y as it is rock, and just a little catchy. “Light it Up” is so similar in style that I barely noticed the song had changed. From there, everything blends together in a bland, senseless way. The songs slow down (“Broken Bones”, “10 Years”) and speed up again (“Headlights”). Guitars grind into a harder sound, completely indistinguishable from the mob of wannabe almost metal bands out there (“Wanted Man”). “Far from Bad” wasn’t terrible, but in the same vein, wasn’t good, either.

They may be a WWE fan favorite, but there is only one song here that plays to the fame Rev Theory has garnered. Bland and dull, the album is full of the same middle of the road mediocrity as bands like P.O.D., Seether. Honestly, after four listens to this album, I couldn’t take another go. I also napped during one listen, while it blasted pretty loudly on my stereo - it was just that boring. For a rock album, that’s almost a death sentence. If you’ve absolutely got to, buy the single “Hell Yeah” on itunes. Otherwise, it just isn’t worth the purchase or dumping onto the computer. It’ll just end up being a waste of hard drive space.

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