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6Sep/101

Blacklisted – No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me – Deathwish Inc #100 – 2010

I never quite got Blacklisted. I've seen them a ton, I've had plenty of opportunities to get into them. But they never clicked. I've watched kids in Philly and Boston lose their shit to them multiple times, but like I said, it's never clicked for me. Something never sat right. The live gigs were always excellent. George is an animal on stage. The whole band takes it to another level.

When I first received this album, I sat on it for a while. And then I started to play it and replay it and replay it and replay it ... Now this album speaks my language. This is the album for me. I know lots of kids were turned off by this album. "It's not hardcore" "I can't finger point" "I can't kickbox." Whatever. This album is the one that is turning me on to Blacklisted. Holy shit, it's good. So fucking good. And the kids are right, it isn't your typical hardcore album. It's fucking weird. So fucking awesomely weird. Trumpets, noise, heavy drums, thick bass, flutes, violins, acoustic guitars, tambourines, ... Seriously, that's some out there shit. And that's just ONE song... If hard rock is your thing, this album is for you. Think Sabbath, Blind Faith and even a little Black Francis ...

I highly suggest you go pick this one up. If you read the same book I read, this is the album that will change your mind about Blacklisted. I now have to go back and revisit all their albums because I know I've missing something amazing. If you slept too and need that old vinyl (or merch), you'll probably have to resort to Ebay. But as always, buy direct from the band or the label first. Do it.

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5Sep/100

End Of A Year – You Are Beneath Me – Deathwish Inc #104 – 2010

I read this interview with Pat Kindlon of End Of a Year where he mentioned how Deathwish Inc let them to be as weird as they wanted to be. This is totally true. I'm sure Tre gives them a super long leash, and it probably has weird spikes and amulets hanging off of it. But it has worked out successfully for them because this album is a banger. I don't know how they did it, but the band somehow managed to modernize the greatest sounds of mid 90s Western Mass hardcore. Think Dive and Bound (yes, Winchendon is so far north in Massachusetts that it is actually part of Western Mass. You know it's true. Then again, Albany is just west Western Mass, right? Just kidding, jeesh). Like Sebadoh meets Motorhead meets Sonic Youth's Dirty. It's on a whole other level. Pat's vocals skitter the line of yelling and talking. It's almost so un-hardcore that's it only hardcore. You know what I mean? Like it's so right of right that it's left. Yeah, like that. And the music bangs. You probably won't catch people finger pointing, but I can see plenty of sing alongs and thrashing. If this band tours with Lion Of Judah and Give, the venues will erupt in weird metal mosh freak outs. It would be a sight to see, this is certain.

I strongly suggest you go pick up this record. Run, don't walk over to Deathwish Inc. Great label, great dudes. Hook it up. And if that isn't enough to wet your whistle, head over to Ebay to pick up that merch you slept on all these years.

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