With two top-notch techno records under their belts Vegas and Tweekend, America's answer to the Chemical Brothers go for the trifecta with their new album Legion of Boom. Unfortunately, the Crystal Method have delivered an album that is inexplicably monotonous and extremely boring. One really has to wonder how Legion of Boom could have gone so wrong when you look at the long list of guest stars who elected to work on this project. You have Rahzel from the Roots bringing his beat box technique to the opening track "Starting Over," but the beats that the Crystal Method have laid down for him completely drown him out. On "Born Too Slow," Wes Borland formerly of the God awful Limp Bizkit jams out a few guitar licks for John Garcia of stoner rock gods Kyuss to wail over, but again the beats that Crystal Method build beneath are so stagnant that it just lays there like flotsom. And why get a ferocious vocalist like Lisa Kekaula of the Bellrays for "High and Low" if you're just going to demote her to what is just about the equivalent of background vocalist? Why God why? Please Lord, give me the answer! Legion of Boom might have been better titled Region of Gloom.