Several years ago, Wes Eisold and the crew of American Nightmare began a trend. Were they necessarily the first band to do it? Probably not, but they were most definitely the first band to do it and get much major attention for it. The band blended loud, squawky punk rock, urgent, angst-filled hardcore, and laced it with tongue-in-cheek one liners and fancy, glossy, art rock undertones. Since then, bands have followed suit in what has to be one of my favorite veins of hardcore music. Bands like Modern Life Is War, Dead Hearts, Paint The Town Red, and of course, This is Hell. With angry, hopeless and helplessly tongue-in-cheek one liners like "if only the good die young we'll fucking live forever", and the sqauwky and defiant hardcore punk blood running warm through their veins,
Last Updated (Friday, 02 June 2006 00:40)
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I'm among the legions of people who thought that Underoath's previous album, 'They're Only Chasing Safety' was too emo to even be emo. It was the prototype, most stereotypical emo album I believe I've ever heard. The big joke of course, was that the band photo inside looked like they carbon copied one emo kid with long-ish dirty blonde hair, a five o'clock shadow, and a tight sweater and girls pants five times...everyone in the band looked exactly the same. That said, it's no small understatement to say I expected very, very little from Underoath's new album 'Define The Great Line'. Boy, was I wrong. Underoath is a new beast, and I mean that in the best possible terms.
Last Updated (Friday, 02 June 2006 00:33)
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As is pretty well known at this point, there are always a small handfull of bands that everyone seems to be talking about at any given moment. There are the big "hot topic circle" bands, the ones that are usually on Ozzfest that year and are instantly popping up everyone and on everybody's tshirts, there are the Great Old Ones, the bands that everyone knows and respects, and the people who don't get strange looks and much scrutiny (afterall...who doesn't love Converge and Shai Hulud, right?) And then there are the upstarts...while they may not be BRAND SPANKING NEW to the scene, they've just recently broken through, or they've been touring incessently lately, and their new record is a real jawdropper. Some bands come to mind with this category. Last year it was certainly Bloodlined Calligraphy, First Blood, Calico System, bands in this category, who may not ALWAYS be the topic of discussion, but with fairly good consistency, everyone knows them and likes them. Enter Ignite. They've been around for a few years, to be certain. But their most recent album, Our Darkest Days, has been garnering them a fairly large amount of attention from hardcore heads. Granted, the squawky, screeching guitars and the frantically pissed off wasted youth hardcore vocals are all missing here...this reminds me more of bands like Anti Flag, Bad Religion, or any of the more alternative punk bands of before....pre-Agnostic Front, if you will.
Last Updated (Friday, 02 June 2006 00:38)
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How long have I been waiting for this record to come out? A few years, that's how long. To preface Shallow Water Grave, the band, I will start by saying they have a little bit in common with Ramallah. Everyone remembers when Ramallah came out, and people were going apeshit because it was a project spearheaded by Rob Lind and Jake Bannon...the masterminds behind Blood For Blood and Converge, right? And everyone remembers hearing 'But A Whimper', loving it, and sitting on their hands for 'Kill A Celebrity' to come out, and buying it, and hearing....no Jake Bannon. But...that was just the bait, the album was spectacular without Jake and it was still a good record. So it is with Shallow Water Grave.
Last Updated (Friday, 02 June 2006 00:36)
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