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Four albums and ten years later, Theory of a Deadman are still content to be Nickelback’s baby brothers, eagerly following within the footsteps of their bigger, tougher siblings. Every song on The Truth Is... sounds as if it were ghost-written by Chad Kroeger, mirroring his singsong hooks and clubfooted rhythms; TOAD distinguish themselves from Nickelback by cleaning up and toning down the production, and adding some canned horns for a veneer of class. Maybe all this relative sweetness is why the group tries so hard to sound hard, frontman Tyler Connolly trumping Kroeger’s legendary misogyny with such gnarled nuggets of hate as “Bitch Came Back,” “Gentleman,” and “The Truth Is...(I Lied About Everything).” Subscribing to the Tom Leykis school of relationships, Connolly concludes that he likes his current girl “so much better when she’s down on her knees” and tells his ex that “I really hate your face, you were never that hot in the first place,” sentiments so strong they undercut the token lovelorn ballads here (as well as the sincerity of his wannabe military recruitment anthem “We Were Men”), but the real problem is that he doesn’t sound like a self-described “Lowlife,” he sounds like a pretty boy pandering to frat boys on spring break. This isn’t ugly visceral music; it’s castrated rock with a rotten heart.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Tyler Connolly, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer - Howard Benson, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer - CHRIS LORD-ALGE, MixingEngineer - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - Hatsukazu Inagaki, Engineer - Keith Armstrong, Engineer - Mike Plotnikoff, Audio Recording Engineer - Andrew Schubert, Engineer - Brad Townsend, Engineer - Theory Of A Deadman, MainArtist - David Brenner, Guitar - Christine Connolly, Writer - Dean Back, Bass Guitar, Writer - Dave Brenner, Writer - Joe Dandeneau, Drums, Writer - Paul Dicarli, Engineer
© 2011 The All Blacks B.V. ℗ 2011 The All Blacks B.V. (Worldwide excluding Canada) 604 Records Inc. (Canada Only)
Tyler Connolly, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer - Howard Benson, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer - Kara Dioguardi, Writer - CHRIS LORD-ALGE, MixingEngineer - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - Hatsukazu Inagaki, Engineer - Keith Armstrong, Engineer - Mike Plotnikoff, Audio Recording Engineer - Andrew Schubert, Engineer - Brad Townsend, Engineer - Theory Of A Deadman, MainArtist - David Brenner, Guitar - Dean Back, Bass Guitar, Writer - Dave Brenner, Writer - Joe Dandeneau, Drums, Writer - Paul Dicarli, Engineer
© 2011 The All Blacks B.V. ℗ 2011 The All Blacks B.V. (Worldwide excluding Canada) 604 Records Inc. (Canada Only)
Tyler Connolly, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer - Howard Benson, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer - Kara Dioguardi, Writer - CHRIS LORD-ALGE, MixingEngineer - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - Hatsukazu Inagaki, Engineer - Keith Armstrong, Engineer - Mike Plotnikoff, Audio Recording Engineer - Andrew Schubert, Engineer - Brad Townsend, Engineer - Theory Of A Deadman, MainArtist - David Brenner, Guitar - Dean Back, Bass Guitar - Joe Dandeneau, Drums - Paul Dicarli, Engineer
© 2011 The All Blacks B.V. ℗ 2011 The All Blacks B.V. (Worldwide excluding Canada) 604 Records Inc. (Canada Only)
Brett James, Writer - Tyler Connolly, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer - Howard Benson, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer - CHRIS LORD-ALGE, MixingEngineer - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - Hatsukazu Inagaki, Engineer - Keith Armstrong, Engineer - Mike Plotnikoff, Audio Recording Engineer - Andrew Schubert, Engineer - Brad Townsend, Engineer - Theory Of A Deadman, MainArtist - David Brenner, Guitar - Dean Back, Bass Guitar - Joe Dandeneau, Drums - Paul Dicarli, Engineer
© 2011 The All Blacks B.V. ℗ 2011 The All Blacks B.V. (Worldwide excluding Canada) 604 Records Inc. (Canada Only)
Tyler Connolly, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer - Howard Benson, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer - Kara Dioguardi, Writer - CHRIS LORD-ALGE, MixingEngineer - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - Hatsukazu Inagaki, Engineer - Keith Armstrong, Engineer - Mike Plotnikoff, Audio Recording Engineer - Andrew Schubert, Engineer - Brad Townsend, Engineer - Theory Of A Deadman, MainArtist - David Brenner, Guitar - Dean Back, Bass Guitar, Writer - Dave Brenner, Writer - Joe Dandeneau, Drums, Writer - Paul Dicarli, Engineer
© 2011 The All Blacks B.V. ℗ 2011 The All Blacks B.V. (Worldwide excluding Canada) 604 Records Inc. (Canada Only)
Nina Ossoff, Writer - Tyler Connolly, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer - Dana Calitri, Writer - Howard Benson, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer - Kathy Sommer, Writer - CHRIS LORD-ALGE, MixingEngineer - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - Hatsukazu Inagaki, Engineer - Keith Armstrong, Engineer - Mike Plotnikoff, Audio Recording Engineer - Andrew Schubert, Engineer - Brad Townsend, Engineer - Theory Of A Deadman, MainArtist - David Brenner, Guitar - Dean Back, Bass Guitar, Writer - Dave Brenner, Writer - Joe Dandeneau, Drums, Writer - Paul Dicarli, Engineer
© 2011 The All Blacks B.V. ℗ 2011 The All Blacks B.V. (Worldwide excluding Canada) 604 Records Inc. (Canada Only)
Tyler Connolly, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer - Howard Benson, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer - CHRIS LORD-ALGE, MixingEngineer - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - Hatsukazu Inagaki, Engineer - Keith Armstrong, Engineer - Mike Plotnikoff, Audio Recording Engineer - Andrew Schubert, Engineer - Brad Townsend, Engineer - Theory Of A Deadman, MainArtist - David Brenner, Guitar - Christine Connolly, Writer - Dean Back, Bass Guitar, Writer - Dave Brenner, Writer - Joe Dandeneau, Drums, Writer - Paul Dicarli, Engineer
© 2011 The All Blacks B.V. ℗ 2011 The All Blacks B.V. (Worldwide excluding Canada) 604 Records Inc. (Canada Only)
Tyler Connolly, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer - Howard Benson, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer - CHRIS LORD-ALGE, MixingEngineer - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - Hatsukazu Inagaki, Engineer - Keith Armstrong, Engineer - Mike Plotnikoff, Audio Recording Engineer - Andrew Schubert, Engineer - Brad Townsend, Engineer - Scott Stevens, Writer - Theory Of A Deadman, MainArtist - David Brenner, Guitar - Dean Back, Bass Guitar - Joe Dandeneau, Drums - Paul Dicarli, Engineer
© 2011 The All Blacks B.V. ℗ 2011 The All Blacks B.V. (Worldwide excluding Canada) 604 Records Inc. (Canada Only)
Tyler Connolly, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer - Howard Benson, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer - CHRIS LORD-ALGE, MixingEngineer - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - Hatsukazu Inagaki, Engineer - Keith Armstrong, Engineer - Mike Plotnikoff, Audio Recording Engineer - Andrew Schubert, Engineer - Brad Townsend, Engineer - Theory Of A Deadman, MainArtist - David Brenner, Guitar - Dean Back, Bass Guitar, Writer - Dave Brenner, Writer - Joe Dandeneau, Drums, Writer - Paul Dicarli, Engineer
© 2011 The All Blacks B.V. ℗ 2011 The All Blacks B.V. (Worldwide excluding Canada) 604 Records Inc. (Canada Only)
Tyler Connolly, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer - Howard Benson, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer - CHRIS LORD-ALGE, MixingEngineer - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - Hatsukazu Inagaki, Engineer - Keith Armstrong, Engineer - Mike Plotnikoff, Audio Recording Engineer - Andrew Schubert, Engineer - Brad Townsend, Engineer - Theory Of A Deadman, MainArtist - David Brenner, Guitar - Christine Connolly, Writer - Dean Back, Bass Guitar, Writer - Dave Brenner, Writer - Joe Dandeneau, Drums, Writer - Paul Dicarli, Engineer - Arik Leavitt, Banjo
© 2011 The All Blacks B.V. ℗ 2011 The All Blacks B.V. (Worldwide excluding Canada) 604 Records Inc. (Canada Only)
Tyler Connolly, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer - Howard Benson, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer - CHRIS LORD-ALGE, MixingEngineer - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - Hatsukazu Inagaki, Engineer - Keith Armstrong, Engineer - Mike Plotnikoff, Audio Recording Engineer - Andrew Schubert, Engineer - Brad Townsend, Engineer - Theory Of A Deadman, MainArtist - David Brenner, Guitar - Dean Back, Bass Guitar, Writer - Dave Brenner, Writer - Joe Dandeneau, Drums, Writer - Paul Dicarli, Engineer
© 2011 The All Blacks B.V. ℗ 2011 The All Blacks B.V. (Worldwide excluding Canada) 604 Records Inc. (Canada Only)
Tyler Connolly, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer - Howard Benson, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer - CHRIS LORD-ALGE, MixingEngineer - Ted Jensen, MasteringEngineer - Hatsukazu Inagaki, Engineer - Keith Armstrong, Engineer - Mike Plotnikoff, Audio Recording Engineer - Andrew Schubert, Engineer - Brad Townsend, Engineer - Theory Of A Deadman, MainArtist - David Brenner, Guitar - Dean Back, Bass Guitar, Writer - Dave Brenner, Writer - Joe Dandeneau, Drums, Writer - Paul Dicarli, Engineer
© 2011 The All Blacks B.V. ℗ 2011 The All Blacks B.V. (Worldwide excluding Canada) 604 Records Inc. (Canada Only)
Album review
Four albums and ten years later, Theory of a Deadman are still content to be Nickelback’s baby brothers, eagerly following within the footsteps of their bigger, tougher siblings. Every song on The Truth Is... sounds as if it were ghost-written by Chad Kroeger, mirroring his singsong hooks and clubfooted rhythms; TOAD distinguish themselves from Nickelback by cleaning up and toning down the production, and adding some canned horns for a veneer of class. Maybe all this relative sweetness is why the group tries so hard to sound hard, frontman Tyler Connolly trumping Kroeger’s legendary misogyny with such gnarled nuggets of hate as “Bitch Came Back,” “Gentleman,” and “The Truth Is...(I Lied About Everything).” Subscribing to the Tom Leykis school of relationships, Connolly concludes that he likes his current girl “so much better when she’s down on her knees” and tells his ex that “I really hate your face, you were never that hot in the first place,” sentiments so strong they undercut the token lovelorn ballads here (as well as the sincerity of his wannabe military recruitment anthem “We Were Men”), but the real problem is that he doesn’t sound like a self-described “Lowlife,” he sounds like a pretty boy pandering to frat boys on spring break. This isn’t ugly visceral music; it’s castrated rock with a rotten heart.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:45:55
- Main artists: Theory Of A Deadman
- Label: Roadrunner Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2011 The All Blacks B.V. ℗ 2011 The All Blacks B.V.
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