While browsing through the booklet and looking at the pictures, I was getting a bit worried. Guys with black emo hair, mascara, and looks on their faces as if they just crapped their pants but dont have the balls to admit it. I’m not someone who judges a band on their looks but this made the Pre-fabricated-music-Alarm to go haywire. I almost suspected an almost sort of HIM-esque rock or some crybaby emo, but when opener "Knife Blood Nightmare" kicked in it made things a bit worse. Aiden seems to play another breed of screamo-hardcore-goth-punk-blabla-rock that just doesn't mean anything to me personally. Maybe fans of My Chemical Romance or AFI can relate to this kind of music, but the tunes just don't stick with me.

I’m not saying that Aiden are bad musicians, but "A Nightmare Anatomy" seems like another entry into an already crowded genre of music. If the disc had some great, catchy tunes, things might have been different. Too bad that I couldnt even pick out one tune which could be a cool single, because no track rises above the level of mediocrity. Wil’s vocals miss that special thing that a vocalist needs in this kind of music. The guitarriffs are generic at best, and drumwise nothing happens that hasn’t been done a thousand times before. The band apparantly has a good live reputation, so I hope to catch them live one day.

Aiden seems to stick with a formula that works for a certain audience, but if they wan't to pursue a long career as a professional band I hardly advice them to go back to the rehearsalroom, hone their skill and just try to write better songs.