Is it really so shocking?

Within the past year, there has been an audio onslaught from the record industry to try and cash in on the media frenzy started by bands such as Limp Bizkit and Korn.

The result is a slew of bands with little or no separate identities. The sound duplicates from one band to the next, producing a stagnant, uninteresting genre that some people call “nu-metal.”

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Sinisstar is certainly no exception. Although the crunching guitar riffs on their latest disc, “Future Shock,” are enough to make the music mildly interesting, the overall package is just an equal parts combination of Limp Bizkit and Disturbed.

The opening song, “White Noise,” contains the lyrics, “I’m not going down I’m taking over.” It’s hard to picture Sinisstar taking over with all of the competition that has flooded the market.

Even though the band and the music are rather nondescript, they still have a lot of people to thank. In fact, the members of the band saw fit to use 30 lines of text, spread over four panels on the inside of the CD jacket, to thank people. Every member managed to thank Fred Durst, Limp Bizkit or both. And yet none of them bothered to thank God, or declare that they were going to Disneyland.

One interesting note is that Sinisstar’s vocalist, Edgy, was the vocalist in the doom metal band Burning Witch. Burning Witch’s first album, produced by the legendary Steve Albini (former member of Chicago punk band, Big Black), has pockets of fans strewn throughout the United States.

“People who don’t like the truth won’t like us,” Edgy said in their press kit. “Those who embrace the truth and those parents who want their kids to experience the truth will find nothing harmful or fearful in our lyrics if they read them, unless they fear reality.”

Despite Edgy’s message, the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) disagreed, landing a Parental Advisory emblem printed directly on the front of the CD cover.