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Influences: Turning Point, Token Entry, New Found Glory, Uniform Choice, The Mile Markers, Battery, Dag Nasty, Shelter, Rites of Spring, Kid Dynamite, Siege, Eyes Off The Ground, Embrace, New Jersey.

Welcome Death Is Not Glamorous to the newest, gradually accumulating wave of super poppy melodic hardcore. The band has obviously taken up classes at the Lifetime School of Melodicore Hooks, and boy, they're well on their way to their bachelor's. Demo 2005 is a fun and positive albeit awfully derivative take on the style that's plenty enjoyable all the same.

With one listen of opener "The Fallback," you can tell these guys aren't from New Jersey. I can't tell if lead singer Christian Medaas has a thick accent or not; he simply sounds foreign, perhaps due to the wildly raspy nature of his voice. The novelty (good or bad, it isn't necessarily either) wears off quickly, luckily, as one of the EP's best tracks comes next in "Think You Can," bringing to mind the currently defunct Backup Plan. It's the band sticking the closest they can to angry hardcore punk, and apparently they do it rather well. "Close-Knit" and "Elephants" brings us back into the more upbeat, pop-punk-oriented reaches of the band's grips. Closer "Assets" is the other standout here; Medaas's vocal approach seems pretty creative here, as he sounds a bit frustrated abruptly shouting lines over skatepunk structure until a slight tempo change is applied for the chorus with a bouncy, power-chord approach that actually gives the song a good, diverse quality.

DING's Demo definitely isn't deathly distinct or doubtlessly devising. Still, their embryonic stage is a pretty fun one to watch, as out of hand as this metaphor is already. But seriously, the Norway-based outfit is definitely one to watch (notably thanks to "Think You Can" and "Assets"), and should assuredly pair their refreshing attitudes with some even better tunes soon.

sample mp3: demos/EPs:
dunno what's exactly inside coz it's not my upload
nevertheless - enjoy!
thx to Filon & Shen

Death_Is_Not_Glamorous-Wide_Eyes-2007-KzT



ARTiST : Death Is Not Glamorous
ALBUM : Wide Eyes
LABEL : Run For Cover Records
GENRE : Hardcore

RELEASE : 2007-11-19
STREET : 2007-10-09

ENCODER : LAME v3.97 -V2 --vbr-new
QUALiTY : 230kbps avg / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
SiZE : 54 MB
PLAYTiME : 00:31:08

+ TRACK LiSTiNG +
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[#] [Track Name] [Time]

1. The Fallback 2:17
2. Think You Can 1:13
3. Close-Knit 2:50
4. Elephants 2:08
5. Assets 1:57
6. The Three C's 1:58
7. Foreground 2:42
8. Too Bad A.C. Ain't In Charge No More 1:47
9. Second Step 1:30
10. Bring It Back 1:22
11. Call It In The Air 1:49
12. Compassion 1:57
13. Wide Eyes 1:31
14. One Song Gets Me Moving 1:27
15. Saving Breath 1:57
16. Confined 2:43
31:08


+ RELEASE iNFORMATiON +
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This disc collects almost all of the splits and EP tracks from Norway's Death Is
Not Glamorous, who play an upbeat and melodic style of hardcore that harkens
back to Gorilla Biscuits' "Start Today" and Lifetime's "Jersey's Best Dancers."

название прикололо, судя по стилю тож что то интересное, ценим.. )))

нее народ Happy Hardcre эт уже издевательство а не направление

Happy Hardcore - это электронщина ваще-то.

Утя писал(а):Happy Hardcore

кстати да

хых спс просвятили

Кстати не знал

Хороший альбом, понравилось, спасибо

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5TA1KR'a тянет на релизы с гонными названиями )