hinder welcome to the freakshow download best buy Welcome to the Freakshow. According to Austin Winkler, Welcome to the Freakshow, the fourth studio album from Oklahoma-based post-grunge/sleaze rockers , was created in the throes of "a really, really dark drug binge" that resulted in a post-recording hospital stint for the notoriously rowdy frontman, suggesting that the band had finally reached the rehab portion in its extremely long reading of Mötley Crüe's The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band. While Freakshow may have been conjured in darkness, it's hardly a downer, offering up 11 (culled from the usual 50-70 that the band purports to have written upon each new release) tracks that run the gamut from crass, high-energy "underbite rock" anthems ("Save Me," "See You in Hell," "Wanna Be Rich") to cliché-ridden, lighter-melting power ballads ("Should Have Known Better," "Talk to Me," "Anyone But You"), all of which feel like incidental music culled from an unauthorized made-for-television biopic of Mutt Lange. Winkler's voice, a surprisingly complex amalgamation of Layne Staley, Chad Kroeger, and Trent Reznor, remains Hinder's greatest asset, and his "all in" approach, especially amidst such commonplace, retro-metal trappings, helps to elevate the album's more immediate offerings, like the aforementioned first single "Save Me" and its sordid counterpart "Freakshow," an inch or two above the surface. That said, it's awfully hard to throw Hinder a bone, as they seem to prefer ones that have spent a great deal of time in much larger dog's mouths, and while they're not the only band with a fetish for post-flannel brooding and Sunset Strip posturing, they're certainly among the worst offenders. Title: Welcome to the Freakshow. If you see any errors or omissions in the CD information shown above, either in the musician credits or song listings (cover song credits, live tracks, etc.), please post them in the corrections section of the Heavy Harmonies forum/message board . The music discographies on this site are works in progress. If you notice that a particular Hinder CD release or compilation is missing from the list above, please submit that CD using the CD submission page . The ultimate goal is to make the discographies here at Heavy Harmonies as complete as possible. Even if it is an obscure greatest-hits or live compilation CD, we want to add it to the site. Please only submit official CD releases; no bootlegs or cassette-only or LP-only releases. EPs and CD-singles from Hinder are also welcome to be added, as long as they are at least 4 songs in length. Existing comments about this CD. From: CC Date: May 8, 2013 at 6:28 pretty good album, but most defo their weakest so far. Little too reliant on slow paced songs, and some "beats", for want of a better word, that seem somewhat out of place on a Hinder album. You cannot leave comments for this CD because you are not currently logged in. Please click here to log in or create a Username for leaving comments. Latest Audio Samples. Designed and maintained by Webmaster © 1998-2020. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy. Hinder Welcome to the Freakshow. Just like clockwork two more long years have passed and given way to the inevitable. Yes that’s right, a brand new Hinder album. Like all their previous , Hinder again don’t try to break new ground with a memorable title and present the new body of work as the aptly titled ‘Welcome to the Freakshow’. ‘Welcome to the Freakshow’ contains eleven new tracks that fans of Hinder will no doubt adore almost instantly, whilst everyone else will continue to spit ample amounts of hate in their general direction. Following on from their 2010 release ‘All American Nightmare’ Hinder have regressed and fallen even further away from growing at all. Fans of their music will feel that although Hinder relatively don’t change their sound from album to album, each new release had been better than the last. ‘All American Nightmare’ at least saw Hinder add a different, darker edge to their sound that made it their most solid album to date. Instead of attempting to continue on from that building block, they have decided to strip most of the album back into a somewhat attempted anathematic updated version of ‘Extreme Behaviour’. The songs come arranged in the two typical formats; either an attempted sleazy hard rock song or a ballad, with ‘Welcome to the Freakshow’ relying too much on the latter. Six out of the eleven tracks are ballads on ‘Welcome to the Freakshow’ and most of them have some catchy hooks but overall miss the mark this time around. Songs like “Talk to Me” and “Get Me Away From You” outright aren’t very good and don’t really sound like Hinder at all. However credits due when necessary and Hinder have managed to hit a home run with the country tinged ballad “Anyone But You”. For once nothing about this song feels forced and Austin Wrinkler’s unique gravelly, yet smooth vocals excel in this song making it one of their best to date. Apart from this overall reliance on ballads, ‘Welcome to the Freakshow’ does still manage to include some heavier grungier numbers which Hinder are also known for. With the darker edge lost from their heavier tracks, to make up for it songs like ‘Ladies Come First’ and ‘Wanna Be Rich’ include some dance like up-tempo drumming and electronic effects. ‘Ladies Come First’ manages to capture some catchy lyrical and vocals moments, but ultimately displays one to Hinder’s biggest flaws. Hinder are still too hung up with trying to be the sleazy rockers whilst also trying to maintain that “sensitive” side, when they perhaps should just pick a side already. It doesn’t seem that Hinder is going to solve their identity crisis anytime soon though, because despite relying on ballads, they can still perform a worthwhile rocking number like ‘Freakshow’. ‘Freakshow’ opens with a huge climbing guitar riff that actually set up the song for a worthwhile ride and ‘whoa oh’s’ in the chorus are quite infectious. It has been stated on websites that the completion of this album has seen Hinder deliver their most diverse collection of songs to date, but it feels like most of them are lacking something they were close too on their last release. If diversity was the bulls-eye on a dart board and Hinder were aiming for it, unfortunately the dart they threw has landed in the wall three metres away. Hinder have always been a guilty pleasure band of mine but ‘Welcome to the Freakshow’ is a step in the wrong direction. So ‘Welcome to the Freakshow’, before entering; turn around and leave. Welcome To The Freakshow. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. Buy the album Starting at £13.99. According to Austin Winkler, Welcome to the Freakshow, the fourth studio album from Oklahoma-based post-grunge/sleaze rockers Hinder, was created in the throes of "a really, really dark drug binge" that resulted in a post-recording hospital stint for the notoriously rowdy frontman, suggesting that the band had finally reached the rehab portion in its extremely long reading of Mötley Crüe's The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band. While Freakshow may have been conjured in darkness, it's hardly a downer, offering up 11 (culled from the usual 50-70 that the band purports to have written upon each new release) tracks that run the gamut from crass, high-energy "underbite rock" anthems ("Save Me," "See You in Hell," "Wanna Be Rich") to cliché-ridden, lighter-melting power ballads ("Should Have Known Better," "Talk to Me," "Anyone But You"), all of which feel like incidental music culled from an unauthorized made-for-television biopic of Mutt Lange. Winkler's voice, a surprisingly complex amalgamation of Layne Staley, Chad Kroeger, and Trent Reznor, remains Hinder's greatest asset, and his "all in" approach, especially amidst such commonplace, retro-metal trappings, helps to elevate the album's more immediate offerings, like the aforementioned first single "Save Me" and its sordid counterpart "Freakshow," an inch or two above the surface. That said, it's awfully hard to throw Hinder a bone, as they seem to prefer ones that have spent a great deal of time in much larger dog's mouths, and while they're not the only band with a fetish for post-flannel brooding and Sunset Strip posturing, they're certainly among the worst offenders. © James Christopher Monger /TiVo. Welcome to the Freakshow. As legend has it, Hinder sifted through somewhere between 50 and 70 songs to pick the 11 tracks for its fourth studio album. Add to this the on- record reports that the band’s infamously indulgent frontman Austin Winkler checked into rehab immediately after recording Welcome to the Freakshow , and you have the kind of rock ‘n’ roll lore that makes for top-shelf hype. But from the volatile opener, “Save Me” (where Winkler screams “I’ve cut my demons loose!”), to the closing homage to megalomania, “Wanna Be Rich,” it’s more than possible that the hype's legit. With “See You in Hell,” Hinder has crafted a perfect hard-rocking, parent-hating anthem that sounds best when blasted immediately after slamming the bedroom door. Conversely, the sultry and seductive “Ladies Come First” oozes the kind of leathery sleaze normally reserved for Rob Zombie movies and pole-dancing accompaniment. Of course it wouldn’t be a proper Hinder album without such Zippo-hoisting power ballads as “Should Have Known Better,” “Talk to Me,” and “Anyone but You.”