Faktion - Take It All Away

[American Idiot]

This is going for adds at Alternative and Active Rock on January 23rd. rope.zfmq.fimc.net/afamusic/faftion_takeitaway56rm.ram

[Crushcrushchris]

If I'm not mistaken, that's actually the demo version of their song...

But the new version is on the Roadrunner website...

media.roadrunnerworld.com/Faktion/Faktion_TakeItAllAway.wma

It doesn't work for me, but it might work for you.

Otherwise, you can hear bits and pieces in their Photoshoot Quicktime Video

www.roadrunnerrecords.com/artists/Faktion/showVideo.aspx?fileID=1123

I have heard it though and it's really good...but this is not their best material by far. The best, as they say, is yet to come.

Just listen to Distance on their Myspace www.myspace.com/faktiondallas ...if that doesn't have crossover potential, I'm deaf.

[reception]

mms://66.186.0.101/allaccess/fakttake.wma

[Crushcrushchris]

This song has potential to be big. It's jumping out the gate at Active Rock pretty nicely. Don't be surprised if this flirts with the top 10 of that format in a couple of months.

[Chato]

I wish this kind of numetal influenced radio rock would finally go away . But active rock will probably eat this up.

[American Idiot]

I agree that this does have the sound to become one of the biggest songs of the year. It feels like its been on the "going for adds" list forever. Now the new adds date is February 6th.

[crazyfun1]

It's so cool that a(I guess signed now) band from my My Space Friends list, is getting noticed

[Nicholas2.0]

Oh God, Lou Brutus played this as his pick of the week a week or two ago on Hard Drive. This song was so boring and 1998 that it was horrible. I couldn't wait for it to end.

Look at the K in their name and that's really all you need to know.

[pen]

Hey, 1998 was a good year. That was the year of Eve 6, Godsmack, Korn's Follow The Leader, Queens Of The Stone Age, Cold, Orgy's Candyass, Zebrahead, Finger Eleven, Fuel, System Of A Down, Cursive's Storms Of Early Summer, Spineshank, and Fear Factory's Obsolete.

So I guess if you didn't like all of that, you're screwed.

[Nicholas2.0]

Um, what I'm saying is it sounds like Faktion are already very pathetically outdated right out of the box. Specifically like what new-metal sounded like in 1998. When it's not old enough to be missed or qualify as "nostalgia," and you didn't come out back then, y'know, when everyone was doing it, you're doing a bad job. But hey, that's me.

[pen]

Yeah, I knew that's what you were saying, although I also thought it was a knock against the type of music that came out in 1998 as well, thus the response.

Personally, I don't mind when a band doesn't sound original as long as they sound good. There's something to be said for simply making quality material without having to make a big fuss about progressiveness. I dunno, I feel if I started picking apart every single band that came down the pike about not sounding completely new or different, I'd kind of start missing the point. I've met people that loathe entire genres of music because they feel there's no technical originality, and it just strikes me as a fairly silly way of going about everything. But that's me and that probably diverges totally from anything in this topic, but I just felt I had to get that out of my system.

That having been said, I'm disappointed because Faktion doesn't really impress me all that much. Fivespeed is a much better unoriginal new hard rock band. So is Art Of Dying, although their album seems to be in limbo. At any rate, the day is yours, I suppose.