Orgy Candyass CD

Cover Of New Order's Blue Mon.

Orgy: Jay, Ryan, Amir, Bobby, Paige.
Additional personnel: Troy Van Leeuwen (guitar); Josh Abraham, Jay Gordon (synthesizer, programming); Elijah Blue (synthesizer, background vocals); Dieter (drums); Anthony Valcic (programming); Jonathan Davis (background vocals).
Recorded at Donner Pass Cabin, Truckee, California; N.R.G. Studios, North Hollywood, California; Josh's Garage, Hollywood, California; Westlake Audio, West Hollywood, California.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Paige Haley; Ryan Shuck; Bobby Hewitt; Jay Gordon; Amir Derakh.
It was only a matter of time before someone added obvious hooks and electronic smarts to the post-industrial roar of alt-metal. That's exactly what Orgy does on its debut album, Candyass. It's hard to call this stuff industrial, since its sensibilities are directly out of metal -- hard-hitting riffs, big hooks, and tight songwriting -- but since Orgy is living in the electronica age, everything is given a computerized surface, complete with processed guitars and thundering digital bits. It's a now sound, no two ways about -- it's of the moment, totally 1998, and that's why it's hard to actually judge its merits. Candyass has the intoxicating rush of a new sound, but it's hard not to feel like all of its pleasures are on the surface. Still, you take pleasures where you can get them, and Orgy offers more than expected on this promising debut. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Detractors will undoubtedly peg them as Marilyn Manson imitators, but that's like putting down Stevie Ray Vaughan for his Hendrixisms. The band works well within the parameters of their chosen genre, and if you go for the industrial-inflected synth rock of Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, etc., you'd be foolish to overlook CANDYASS. The sonic assualt is almost unrelentingly brutal, as pounding drums, jackhammer guitars and wailing, buzzing synths (all heavily processed) pin your ears back. The cold, detached vocal style matches the uncompromising electro-rock arrangements perfectly. Apocalyptic, iconoclastic and willfully abrasive, ORGY is the worst nightmare of every teen's parents, and that's what rock & roll's all about.

Melody Maker (4/24/99, p.38) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Blinding industro-rock from breaking US nu-metal stars....Your idea of super time and you know it."