Album Review: Powerman 5000 - Destroy What You Enjoy (2006) C-

Sounds like: AFI, Good Charlotte

I admit, I had completely written off Powerman 5000 after two pretty terrible records (Transform and Anyone For Doomsday?). Well, I'm still ready to write them off in terms of creative integrity, but commercially, Destroy What You Enjoy will keep Rob Zombie's little brother (frontman Spider-1) employed for a few more years.

Up to this point, Powerman 5000 inhabited a funky electro-metal niche. Transform was a bit more of a straight-forward, Linkin Park-type record. And now Destroy What You Enjoy takes the band into an entirely new direction: pop-punk.

The songs here might as well be on A Simple Plan record. The songcraft is proficient without being original, just innoculously catchy punk song after another.

There's certainly plenty for modern rock radio to sink their teeth into, and I'm sure Powerman will see a popularity surge. But the band that made such confections as 'When Worlds Collide' and 'Supernova Goes Pop' might as well be dead and buried.