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Flashpoint - On the Verge

Primary Artist
Flashpoint
Album Title
On the Verge
Release Date
March 21, 2000 
Time
38:53 
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
A kind of disquieting truth about third-generation alt-metal bands is the fact that they are recycling the sounds of the first-generation groups. Not necessarily a bad thing, but the end result is that the entire genre feels like it's in a bit of a time warp, continually feeding on the ground initially etched out by Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, and Nirvana. That's the case with Flashpoint's debut album On The Verge, which initially sounds disarmingly like a fusion of Alice In Chains and SoundgardenRead More