★★★★★
Sound: I last heard Powerman 5000 from their old cd Tonight the Stars Revolt. I was wondering what happend. Well I found out they had a cd that came out a year ago so I bought it. This albulm is a big turnaround from TSR. The sound though is awesome. Mike Tempesta and Adam 12 Williams play their guitars really good on this albulm. You can hear still a little bit of a sci-fi theme going on when they do solos sometime. The new bassist Siggy is a great addition to PM5K...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: When a band explores new styles and sounds throughout the course of it's career, it usually means that the music will progress in at least one aspect or another. For Powerman 5000, the decision to go toward a more punk feel began to be heard on the band's last record Transform and now continues with the latest release Destroy What You Enjoy...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: To start off, this is indeed one of the most impressive albums i've heard and i want to review it song by song. Tonight the stars revolt! is themed on a sort of Outer-Space type sound and Powerman 5000 took up the idea of wearing Spacesuit costumes on their stage shows and music videos: 01. An Eye Is Upon You: the first song on the album,This is just a spoken intro by J.P.Saticoy.It has a sort of outer-space sound in the background as the words are spoken. 02...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Rob Zombieâ??s little brother doesnâ??t disappoint on Transform, because this album is a barrel of good fun. This time around the lyrics arenâ??t so much about science fiction and the absurd, but actually deal with more politically and socially laced messages, discussing issues such revolution (â??Theme to a Fake Revolutionâ??) and even celebrities (â??Thatâ??s Entertainmentâ??), as opposed to space and intergalactic wars...
- www.musicreview.co.za
2011-01-24
★★★★★
In keeping with the old cliché "the third time's a charm," PM5K hits the mark with its aptly titled third major-label release. The group's 1997 debut reflected its once-unique hip-hop/rock sound, but Limp Bizkit blew up first, leaving PM5K with the choice of either looking like a copy-cat, or reinventing itself. The group chose the latter, but its first attempt, 1999's "Tonight the Stars Revolt"--complete with a comic-book-ish image makeover--came off as contrived...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-20
★★★★★
Those looking for a thoughtful, balanced, academic review of Powerman 5000's new album Transform should go elsewhere. This band deserves to be mocked. For those who (understandably) haven't paid attention to PM5K's career thus far, they went platinum in 1999 with Tonight The Stars Revolt. In 2001 they were set to release a follow-up, Anyone For Doomsday? (har har) when band struggles resulted in the scrapping of the album and the departure of their drummer and bassist...
- www.lostatsea.net
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Sound: Powerman 5000, after taking a brief walk into the land of punk rock, has wisely returned to the space-age, electronic-driven blend of rock that led the band to stardom in the first place. Taking a cue from 1999's platinum-selling Tonight The Stars Revolt, Powerman 5000's latest record Somewhere On The Other Side Of Nowhere is once again dishing out plenty of infectious sampling/synth hooks, hip themes (vampires, villains, and technology among them), and power chords to back it all up...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-29
★★★★★
No text for this review; see http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg90/grades-90s.php.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
It's nice for Rob Zombie that his kid brother Spider One has franchised Zombie's noise, bad attitude and haunted-house haberdashery: It makes his own McMinistry seem original. Powerman 5000 have walked in Rob's shadow on two major-label albums, and this third one stays timidly close to home. Doing without the hooks that put '99's Tonight the Stars Revolt! on MTV, Anyone for Doomsday...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
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