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Adema - Kill the Headlights Audio CD

A fair review of the Adema "Kill the Headlights" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Adema reviews here, or go back to the Adema tabs.

Adema Band: Adema
Title: Kill the Headlights
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Release Date: 2007-08-21
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Cold and Jaded 2: Brand New Thing 3: Open Til Midnight 4: Waiting For Daylight 5: Days Go By 6: Prelude 7: All These Years 8: What Doesn't Kill Us 9: Invisible 10: Black Clouds 11: Los Angeles 12: The Losers

Ear Candy
I had a friend lend this to me and I can't get it out of my car. I haven't heard Adema since their debut. Really well put together album. Very very catchy while still having some balls. Cold and Jaded and Open til Midnight are 2 of my favs on this record. Enjoy. I have to see what the other albums are like since the debut. It sounds from reading the reviews that I should avoid planets.


Whaddaya mean, "kill" the headlights???
But that also seems to be the case with "standard" rock bands too; take Adema, for example. You ever listen to an album and then afterwards you say, "It's good, but it's really no different from any other [genre's name here] album out there"? When it comes to rock, most people would probably say that about emo bands (ask Cartel). Although their debut album went gold, they haven't had any real hits thus far and they've gone through a number of lead singers. But that doesn't mean they don't make quality material, like their latest album, Kill the Headlights.

Bobby Rivers is the lead singer this time around, and he helps deliver the band through winners like "Waiting for Daylight", "All These Years" and "Black Clouds". Another highlight is the necessary tribute-to-your-hometown, "Los Angeles" -- okay, okay; so they're actually from Bakersfield, but it's close enough. The instrumental prelude is also a highlight, but it should really be called an interlude because preludes are usually at the beginning of the album (or if not that, they precede a song of the same name).

The only song I can do without is "What Doesn't Kill Us" because the chorus really doesn't make any sense ("What doesn't kill us makes us die"?) In the end, Kill the Headlights proves that you should keep the headlights ON because it's worth the purchase.

Anthony Rupert.


each time they change vocalists, it will diminish exactly who Adema is
On the positive side of things, the group gets more and more melodic with each new vocalist. One has to wonder how many singers Adema will go through before packing it up. That's not to say that the group doesn't still drive home some heavy riffs and beats on Kill the Headlights. They also continue to write some of their best songs lyrically. However, the group comes from a time when they were lumped together with other alternative/nu-metal artists.

As time goes on, despite breaking away from that sound, people will still remember them for that. And each time they change vocalists, it will diminish exactly who Adema is and sounds like. It may be better for the group to start back up as something new and fresh and try to sell these songs that way, then trying to ride a name that's slowly starting to represent nothing solid and constant.
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Very impressed! I haven't listened to Adema since their first album. This one is much better.
If you like adema at all you should get this. Buy it. I was impressed.


LOSERS - last song is a REMAKE!
I can't seem to find mention of credit anywhere. .
The last song is a remake of Warrior Soul's "The Losers", 1990 - LAST DECADE, DEAD CENTURY.

Last Decade Dead Century.


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