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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Salesrank: 195063
Released: December 21, 1999 |
| Our Price: $5.37 |
| Used Price: $0.45 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Wisconsin Death Trip Track Listing:
1. Push It
2. I'm With Stupid
3. Bled for Days
4. Love Dump
5. I Am
6. Otsegolation
7. Stem
8. Sweat of the Bud
9. Fix
10. Wisconsin Death Trip
11. Trance Is the Motion
12. December
Editorial Review:
A genre-bending sonic onslaught, this disc is not for the faint-hearted. Static-X skillfully blend angry staccato guitar, dark metallic noise, and mutating synthesizer washes to construct an ominous (though occasionally humorous) wall of sound. Lead vocalist Wayne Static's high-energy delivery alternates from whisper to roar on tracks such as "Bled for Days" and "I Am," and he often uses his voice as a potent rhythmic sound effect, as on "Push It" and "Sweat of the Bud." Tony Campos's distorted bass riffs and drummer Ken Jay's confident beats add a human feel to the mechanical rhythms, adroitly creating the tight grooves of "Otsegolation" and "Fix," as well as the rigid swing in "Stem." Wayne Static and Koichi Fukuda skillfully combine guitars and keyboards on "The Trance Is the Motion" to produce crashing waves of sound, while their programming on "December" results in a more subdued piece to close the album. --Mark McCleerey
Wisconsin Death Trip Reviews:
Best album from this band 
2008-10-02 - Usually first albums lose their luster once you put a few years on them and see what else the band produces. Not the case here. The best album to be put out so far. Unique sound and vibe that you just can't find anywhere else.
Very good!
2004-06-10 - I liked pretty much every song, there are only two slow songs and they are pretty good themselves. This is a must buy for any major Static-x fan.
A repetetive barrage of cliches 
2000-09-26 - This is probably one of the least-talented groups I have ever heard; I can barely believe they have any fans, let alone a record deal and a hit CD! This album consists mainly of variations on one idiotically simple song structure -- 3 chords with screamed vocals, fast and heavy. Literally, all of the songs sound the same! The lyrics are abrasive, but with less feeling than Trent Reznor's; in fact, they sound more like Rob Zombie's. Writer Wayne Static seems to have the same obsession with the scatological (e.g. "I am", "Love Dump") that one might expect of a 12-year-old boy. The main instruments on this CD are slashed industrial-rock guitars, and the presence of common, overused synthesizer effects do nothing to improve the overall sound. They have none of the innovation or politics of Rage Against the Machine, none of the cheesy amusement of Rob Zombie, and none of the imagination or heartfeltness of Nine Inch Nails. Instead of innovating, they merely rehash the same old devices.
Exstatic about Static-X
2000-09-24 - This is one of my best overall cd's. Here we have an album with Metallica worthy guitar, mixed with Powerman 5000 attiude and a Rob Zombie like voice. Good mix! Static-X is one of the most promising bands out right now. Rock on Static-X!
Keep disco evil!
2000-06-14 - This album combines several musical qualities to make a hard rock album with real metal that also makes great dance music! And my brother said,NOTHING, you idiots he's dead! I got him locked in my basement! So remember, KEEP DISCO EVIL!
