Damnation A.D. ‘In This Life Or The Next’
Surprising as it was, the return of Damnation A.D. may not completely a bad idea at all. This is pure anger filtered through serious stacked guitars and screamed in rage and frustration. While so many bands are out there trying to persuade us to believe their emotions and lyrics are heartfelt, it takes but a few seconds as each song on In This Life Or The Next to hit before you’re instinctly aware of the sincerity of Damnation’s intentions. One of the bands I missed most from the 90’s is back and they made a hell of a record to re introduce themselves to the world. I was pleasantly surprised to see the rerecorded of The Hangedman and Rain As My Veil as well as Addiction, damn there are some good old songs on here. Interesting “upgrades” so to speak, but all in all I would take them doing some good old tracks so that way when they play live I am not forced to endure an entirely new set of songs from an old favorite like Damnation. Sure to get a few people who haven’t touched a record from Victory in some time listening and might even get some of these know it all whipper snappers who think they got this metal core thing figured out jumping around on the floor. Overall an intense display of aggression from the heavyweight champs of the sorrowfilled hateful hardcore.
Surprising as it was, the return of Damnation A.D. may not completely a bad idea at all. This is pure anger filtered through serious stacked guitars and screamed in rage and frustration. While so many bands are out there trying to persuade us to believe their emotions and lyrics are heartfelt, it takes but a few seconds as each song on In This Life Or The Next to hit before you’re instinctly aware of the sincerity of Damnation’s intentions. One of the bands I missed most from the 90’s is back and they made a hell of a record to re introduce themselves to the world. I was pleasantly surprised to see the rerecorded of The Hangedman and Rain As My Veil as well as Addiction, damn there are some good old songs on here. Interesting “upgrades” so to speak, but all in all I would take them doing some good old tracks so that way when they play live I am not forced to endure an entirely new set of songs from an old favorite like Damnation. Sure to get a few people who haven’t touched a record from Victory in some time listening and might even get some of these know it all whipper snappers who think they got this metal core thing figured out jumping around on the floor. Overall an intense display of aggression from the heavyweight champs of the sorrowfilled hateful hardcore.
Down To Nothing “The Most”
Today they’re standing as one of the only bands left from the beginning of this decade. They’ve been through all the worst ends of this shit and yet have managed to position themselves atop a crop of bands that are more gimmick then substance, more trend then standard. The Most is possibly the best record Revelation has put out in god only knows how many years. Down To Nothing has really outdone themselves on this one, topping my previous favorite release by them (Save It For The Birds/Thorp Records) Great recording, good mix of the fast and slow stuff with the right mixture of singing alongs to keep the whole place moving and involved. They have beefed up their sound and really come at our throats on this one, the production is phenomenal, in fact it’s the aspect of the disc that really pushed this over the top. Good song structures and strong vocals could be weakened with something less, instead this is top notch shit jumping out at you –keeping the cd jamming through the whole time- a perfect LP in under 25 minutes. I really can’t say anymore about this disc without being redundant, yet I will say this is in the running for CD of 2007.
Today they’re standing as one of the only bands left from the beginning of this decade. They’ve been through all the worst ends of this shit and yet have managed to position themselves atop a crop of bands that are more gimmick then substance, more trend then standard. The Most is possibly the best record Revelation has put out in god only knows how many years. Down To Nothing has really outdone themselves on this one, topping my previous favorite release by them (Save It For The Birds/Thorp Records) Great recording, good mix of the fast and slow stuff with the right mixture of singing alongs to keep the whole place moving and involved. They have beefed up their sound and really come at our throats on this one, the production is phenomenal, in fact it’s the aspect of the disc that really pushed this over the top. Good song structures and strong vocals could be weakened with something less, instead this is top notch shit jumping out at you –keeping the cd jamming through the whole time- a perfect LP in under 25 minutes. I really can’t say anymore about this disc without being redundant, yet I will say this is in the running for CD of 2007.
Allegiance “Desperation”
Another great band that has managed to survive most of this decade unscathed and still belting out pure fucking hardcore. They don’t tour as much as a lot of the o
ther bands but they still manage to keep up pace with the leaders of the pack. Desperation is an intense angry piece of the core, delivered fast and it hits hard as nails. I really dig the pace they set and the songs seem to fit well the way they were arranged on the disc, with most of the songs flying by. The title track is the big number on the disc and it hits like a ton of bricks even at 3 minutes long (a near mortal sin for by the numbers hardcore bands) Allegiance has delivered another awesome disc, its ashame they don’t tour more as there is a serious need for more bands rolling with the straight up delivery that these guys have the patent on.
Another great band that has managed to survive most of this decade unscathed and still belting out pure fucking hardcore. They don’t tour as much as a lot of the o
ther bands but they still manage to keep up pace with the leaders of the pack. Desperation is an intense angry piece of the core, delivered fast and it hits hard as nails. I really dig the pace they set and the songs seem to fit well the way they were arranged on the disc, with most of the songs flying by. The title track is the big number on the disc and it hits like a ton of bricks even at 3 minutes long (a near mortal sin for by the numbers hardcore bands) Allegiance has delivered another awesome disc, its ashame they don’t tour more as there is a serious need for more bands rolling with the straight up delivery that these guys have the patent on. 
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