Sixx AM "This Is Gonna Hurt"

Now let me warn you..."This is Gonna Hurt." Maybe not your ears, but that slightly industrial-intro leading to this hooky synergy and undeniable energy/chorus which may lead you into the moshpit as you listen to pop-metal perfection. Like dead men tell no tales, beautiful people tell no lies, Right? Well, you don't have to hear any "Lies of The Beautiful People" from me because I'm not beautiful, and the I don't like to lie. Don't even get me started on the chorus, or the vocals which are soaring higher thanthe clouds, and the vocals are ready to start a Dark New Day. Is Adam Lambert in this track? What did I say?  Like those ballads that instead of sounding sappy, sound like a question that may be coming from the opposite perspective?"Are You With Me Now?" Many of us wish we could "Live Forever," but what about our loved ones, and what if our better half doesn't? Would we really want to? The vocals are powerful, and the metallic groove is good, but that bass in the bridge, and the bridge itself, after 3:05 alongside the great rythymic synergy finish the song on an even better note. "Sure Feels Right" to say I think of Everclear when listening to this song on the AM Radio, and those lovely violins are Entertaining Angels. The track is a lot more sentimental, laidback, and a lot more positive, bouncy even! It just sounds more like a song to be on a country record, maybe even a Nickelback record more so than this one. Ok, right from the start they kick butt on "Deadlihood" with a short  "whispered" passage leading this huge swirling sound with  quicker drum pattern, and an even more bombastic backing to the chorus, and a song about the living dead in Hollywood. It's 2:00, do you know where your inner rock star is? This song makes me "Smile," but not as much as the previous one. This song is definitely beautiful, and more of a ballad than the other song that sandwhiched the previous track.Just how they switch from something of the previous to a song that could probably be found on a neo-soul record, even with that solo..possibly. The slow moving piano, and the percussion relying more on airier patterns with more hi-hat,cymbals, and such. The next song is a doo-wop metal track with a real hooky guitar riff, that can have you bobbing your head back and forth, or ready to dance. It sounds really positive, and has a lot of energy... "Oh My G*d" the next song is a great ballad if you want to listen to one, and after 2:20 there is a driving beat and fast solo  before it goes back to all that sentuiment, but to those who myust know tyhe next track, well, "Help is On The Way."I hate to say this but, "Goodbye My Friends" which start with some beautiful piano, and then this riff just slithers under sort of causing the piano to bop and rock as the drums pound in a gothic-muse-vaudeville style track that has a killer solo. Well, the rule for a great album is that if you start off with a great track you need to end with one, and this song is it. A powerful finish that is a piano led ballad, but is so much more than that, and it hits home because some people don't give others a chance sometime,s and assume they know the person but they only know their assumptions. Lyrics are powerful as they stress the golden rule, kill them with kindness because, they don't even know you, they are just a------ because theyu assume; and it helps me be a litlle more comfortable in my own "Skin". The song really gets sappy and stringy after 2:15, but is a great finish. If I had to choose the songs where "This is Gonna Hurt" not real bad but they weren't my favorite they would be: Are You With Me Now, Smile, and Oh My G*d.