Firstly, critics are easily dismissed as unrepresentative of the group's actual audience, who are likely considerably less discriminating in their reactions to the product offered. For these reasons, and likely more, criticism of rock music must, to hold any validity at all, be centered around, if not limited to, the music.
PE are one of the worst acts currently mining the rap-metal ditch.
Their music bears little resemblance to prior notions of metal, or even of songcraft. The grinding, overamped guitar riffs come as staccato, repetitive blows to the head, like a pile-driver, only not as pleasant. The drums compete with a scratching DJ to create a general sense of rhythm, without the sensory pleasures an actual beat might provide. And the vocals coruscate the listener over the top of this sonic soup, offering no message beyond an endless stream of curses and vague intimations of mob violence. This is a bad record.