NASHVILLE |POWERMAN 5000’s PLATINUM ‘TONIGHT THE STARS REVOLT!’: CRITICAL SOUNDBITES
“Tonight’s best moments come from the new wave side of the list. Form and function fuse with clipped, mechanized riffage and Kraftwerkian assembly-line electronics on the Asimovian ‘Automatic.’ The natural choice for a second single, ‘Nobody’s Real’ begins by making music out of factory parts, raining rivets on a hard-wired synthesis of robo-futuro metal-machine machismo, stripped-down melodic econmy, and pulsing stroboscopic bass.”–THE BOSTON PHOENIX
Carly Carioli–7/16/99
“The rhythms on Tonight are simple and insistent, empowered by shouted melodies and roaring guitars. But the serpentine keyboard hooks and electronic touches give the album its appeal.”–PULSE!
Jon Weiderhorn–10/99
“… amid Powerman’s gore, the band has spun some melodies you can hum.”–NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Jim Farber–8/9/99
“…highly entertaining blast of technofied neo-metal fantasy. Tonight the Stars Revolt! is nobody’s idea of a soft album–it’s certainly riff-heavy–but the band incorporated some spacy interludes, emphasized melody more, and even ended the disc with a Cars cover (‘Good Times Roll’) and a jazzy selection (‘Watch the Sky for Me’)….”–THE BOSTON PHOENIX
Carly Carioli–7/16/99
“Powerman 5000 straddle the line between grinding riffs and disco-inflected rhythms.”–GUITAR WORLD
Richard Bienstock–10/99
“The group’s new CD, Tonight The Stars Revolt! (DreamWorks/Interscope), is a furious blast of metal that has more punches than a speed-bag workout. The disc’s lyrics may be sci-fi, but the music is closer to the work of gut-bleeding writers like Thom Jones or Chuck (Fight Club) Palahniuk than Robert Heinlein or Ray Bradbury.”–ALTERNATIVE PRESS
Phil Freeman–10/99
“…as shown on their latest collection, these guys may finally be on the clear-cut, no-turning-back path to stardom that so many predicated for them two years ago.”–HIT PARADER
Rob Andrews–11/99
“This album is the hottest thing to crash through space since Haley’s Comet. The sophomore release from Powerman 5000 harnesses the philosophical sound and vision of debut Mega!! Kung Fu Radio, lacing it with an epicenter of dual guitars and drum and bass-powered fury, and sprinkling in the sweet snarl of Spider’s sanctimonious squalor. The results are riveting, a transgalactic joyride through hard rock dementia and Phantom Menace-inspired phantasia. If there’s a CD custom made to usher into the next thousand years, Powerman 5000 have sculpted it. Tonight The Stars Revolt!–thank the heavens above that we can revel in the soundtrack before the madness begins.”–METAL EDGE
Paul Gargano–11/99
“Powerman 5000 crafts songs that rock and have a lasting impression, the kind of melodies you hum long after you’ve turned the stereo off.”–CMJ MONTHLY
Amy Sciarretto–9/99
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