Shadow Zone

• Artist: Static-X
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• Release Date: October 07, 2003
• Type: Lyrics are included with the album
• Genre: Rock

Review

Static-X's Shadow Zone seems to have arrived via wormhole from 1998. In songs like "Kill Your Idols," "Destroy All," and "Monster," Wayne Static -- who's never sounded more like Korn's Jonathan Davis -- yells "My head's a loaded gun" and "Breathing, killing, seething, willing" over thudding thrash busied up with electronic fuzz. Producer Josh Abraham (Orgy, Crazy Town) buries the drumming behind a wall of guitars, and by mid-album, "The Only"'s foray into Stabbing Westward-style electro-industrial provides depth by heading in a different direction. (Even here, Static's vocal still resembles Davis.) Reliance on formula has always been admissible in metal, and Static-X are indeed formulaic on Shadow Zone, although as the album draws to a close, "So" and "Invincible" debut some sort of double-track effect on Static's voice, which makes him sound like Layne Staley instead of Davis. ~ Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Destroy All (Lyrics)	Tripp Eisen, Wayne Static	Static-X	(2:18)
Control It (Lyrics)	Tony "Citric-T" Campos, Tripp Eisen, Ken Jay, Wayne Static	Static-X	(3:05)
New Pain (Lyrics)	Tripp Eisen, Wayne Static	Static-X	(2:57)
Shadow Zone (Lyrics)	Tripp Eisen, Wayne Static	Static-X	(3:05)
Dead World (Lyrics)	Tripp Eisen, Wayne Static	Static-X	(2:47)
Monster (Lyrics)	Tripp Eisen, Wayne Static	Static-X	(2:14)
The Only	Tripp Eisen, Ken Jay, Wayne Static	Static-X	(2:51)
Kill Your Idols (Lyrics)	Tripp Eisen, Wayne Static	Static-X	(4:00)
All in Wait (Lyrics)	Ken Jay, Wayne Static	Static-X	(4:01)
Otsegolectric (Lyrics)	Tripp Eisen, Wayne Static	Static-X	(2:39)
So (Lyrics)	Wayne Static	Static-X	(3:40)
Transmission	Static-X	Static-X	(1:38)
Invincible (Lyrics)	Tripp Eisen, Ken Jay, Wayne Static	Static-X	(4:05)

Credits

Josh Freese (Drums), Josh Freese (Performer), Tom Whalley (Executive Producer), Ulrich Wild (Mixing), Steven R. Gilmore (Art Direction), Steven R. Gilmore (Design), Steven R. Gilmore (Photo Manipulation), Ryan Williams (Engineer), Annamaria DiSanto (Photography), Josh Abraham (Producer), Liza Joseph (Artist Coordination), Static-X (Main Performer), Mark Kiczula (Assistant), Ken Jay (Keyboards), Wayne Static (Guitar), Wayne Static (Keyboards), Wayne Static (Programming), Wayne Static (Vocals), Wayne Static (Group Member), Cailan Mccarthy (Artist Coordination), Tom Baker (Mastering), Brandon Belsky (Assistant)