Third time is the charm… right? Saying that would actually imply that the first two times were not that great – but that is not the case with Numb…Reborn by Klank. Numb was first released independently in 1999 and then updated a bit and re-released in 2000. Now in 2010 we have Numb…Reborn. At first, I was going to skip getting this because I already had the other two versions. Then I saw that you could listen to it online thanks to Bandcamp, so I thought I should at least give it a run-through. But now… I am just going to have to get the 3.0 version. It is worth it. What exactly has changed? Most of the songs from 1.0 and 2.0 are on here, minus the remixes. But you are given four new songs that are killer as well as some cool remixes. Jim Chaffin himself plays on three of the new songs, with Mike Phillips and Larry Farkas each making an appearance on one new song each. The new disc is worth it for these new songs alone. But the older songs sound better than they ever have. I’m not sure which ones were re-recorded or whatever, but they all sound great. Klank is one of the top industrial/metal/in-your-face/dance bands out there – so if you love the genre then you have to check this album out. I can’t wait to hear Urban Warfare when it is completed. Also can’t believe I waited over a year to check out Numb…Reborn.
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