Adema Unstable CD

Initial pressings include a bonus DVD.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Adema: Mark Chavez (vocals); Mike Ransom, Tim Fluckey (guitar); Dave DeRoo (bass); Kris Kohls (drums).
Recorded at Bay 7 studio, Los Angeles, California.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Initial pressings of UNSTABLE contain a bonus DVD.
Adema: Mark Chavez II (vocals); Mike Ransom, Tim Fluckey (guitar); Dave DeRoo (bass); Kris Kohls (drums).
Recorded at Bay 7 Studios, Valley Village, California.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
By the time Adema released its debut in 2001, nu-metal was already beginning to become a cliché -- you had the guy with the dreds, the guy with the tattoos, the bald guy. By the time Unstable came out in 2003, the backlash was even more palpable and pronounced. The band's debut was hardly groundbreaking, but you could hear that there was a chance that the guys could expand upon those initial ideas and possibly gain some originality. Sadly, all it takes is one listen to Unstable to realize that Adema was satisfied to stick to the formula. The entire disc comes off as safe as mother's milk, catering to the most banal of radio programmers whose idea of taking a risk is playing System of a Down during the daylight hours, and to the least discriminating fans. What passes for poignant heartfelt balladry, such as "Promises," which ironically complains about excuses being "all played out," seems calculated instead of sincere. When the band does kick things up a notch, on the funk-riffing "Stressin'" or lead track, "Co-Dependent," it seems more a vehicle to display rock star moves on-stage than any concrete cathartic calisthenics. With a chance to make a unique statement, Adema stays pat, and the result of the lateral move is actually several steps back. ~ Brian O'Neill
Artists like Jeff Buckley and Jakob Dylan have shown musical talent can run in the family. It should come as no surprise, then, that Mark Chavez, who is the younger brother of Korn's Jonathan Davis, is as just as adept at delivering bone-crunching, angst-laden nu-metal as his older sibling. On UNSTABLE, however, Chavez's band Adema goes one step further by injecting the genre with a healthy dose of pure pop melody amongst the larynx-lacerating death metal-isms and down-tuned guitar thrashing. In addition, there are hints that someone in the band is a fan of Depeche Mode, or perhaps the keyboard-driven pop-prog of POWER WINDOWS-era Rush. In other words, Adema is no second-generation rap-rock rip off, but rather a band unafraid to build upon its stellar metal pedigree with a variety of atypical sonic detours.
Artists like Jeff Buckley and Jakob Dylan have shown musical talent can run in the family. It should come as no surprise, then, that Mark Chavez, who is the younger brother of Korn's Jonathan Davis, is as just adept at delivering bone-crunching, angst-laden nu-metal as his older sibling. On UNSTABLE, however, Chavez's band Adema goes one step further by injecting the genre with a healthy dose of pure pop melody amongst the larynx-lacerating death metal-isms and down-tuned guitar thrashing. In addition, there are hints that someone in the band is a fan of Depeche Mode, or perhaps the keyboard-driven pop-prog of POWER WINDOWS-era Rush. In other words, Adema is no second-generation rap-rock rip off, but rather a band unafraid to build upon its stellar metal pedigree with a variety of atypical sonic detours.

This 12-song CD also includes a bonus DVD.