ALICE IN CHAINS IPHONE APP: BLACK GIVES WAY TO BLAH
Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 4:00pm by Axl RosenbergWell, I guess Alice in Chains can’t hit a home run every time.
The metal-related iPhone apps thus far – or, at least the ones I’ve seen – have, by and large, sucked. Oddly enough, Metallica, who haven’t released too many products worth owning this (or last) decade, have the best ones: their Live Metallica and Tap Tap Revenge apps are both totally solid. I didn’t get the Suffocation one, but Invisible Oranges’ review didn’t make it sound too appealing.
And now there’s the AIC “Mobile Roadie” app, which, quite frankly, is waste of 99 cents for anyone but the most die-hard (and brain dead) Alice fan. The app allows you to listen to a few songs from the album, which you probably already own; watch some videos, which you a) may have already seen or b) were capable of watching on your iPhone via YouTube anyway; read a bio of the band that is pretty much just a glorified “AIC are awesome” press release; look a discography which would suggest that Black is the band’s debut; get tour dates and news which, again, you could already do on an iPhone; post on a “fan wall;” or play with some art from the Black album booklet. And, seriously, even if you’re high, it’s fun to play with that art for precisely .02 seconds. This shit is lame, lame, lame.
Don’t believe me? Watch the video below. It pretty much demonstrates that your buck would be better spent on almost anything but this app.
If anyone knows of any metal apps that are actually worth a damn, let us know…
-AR
It’s all crap.
i don’t think that video is helped by the fact the guy has the most dull and uninteresting tone of all time!
The LiveMetallica app is much, much better than I would have ever expected from the band. Especially since it was their first attempt at an iPhone app.
my comment
NIN’s app is better… and free.
This is bullshit. I want Dee Schneider on VOX with AIC.
That would have made me happy.
Layne, RIP
So what you’re realizing is that music artists don’t make entertaining stuff for your gayPod? Maybe they should stick to making music, and you should stick to sucking.
Woah there tiger.
awesome.
theres something else assholes can use while driving.
The TotalRock and Metal Hammer apps are both “okay”, though neither is gonna rock anyone’s world.
Textures, Nuclear Blast, iwabo, Suffocation, Danforth — All metal bands/labels with iPhone apps that are actually pretty good.