OK! OK! I know that this has been released for a long time. Well, we haven't reviewed it on DEAD and this LP is available all over the place and many of you guys who don't have this will for sure run across it. First off this is a VAST improvement from Blessed Are the Persecuted. I really didn't dig Blessed.. and I was torn on buying this one.I am happy to say that this one is a keeper. Hardcore is the dish and that is a music style I usually am disappointed with. Don't give up on checkin' this one out just because you didn't like the last LP.It is packed with rippin' grooves that will get you out of your chair and into the pit or at the least, make you slam the gas pedal down through a school zone.
The highlight of this release is, by far, the guitar work. Yes, a hardcore band that has guitar that stands out (how rare).The best description of their guitar style has to be medieval, along the lines of the imperial Slayer/Bolt Thrower rhythms. The vocals are not very unique and I find them very one dimensional. But, I have to say that I have never heard a singer flow with such precision to the music as on this LP. The vocalist times everything perfectly and changes his voice speed to the tee. I'm sure the janitor has to clean up a few gallons of spit after the show.The lyrics are quite impressive and tend to focus mainly on the harsh consequences of life (and death) without Christ. Here's a couple excerpts: Supreme being for your taste/Sufficient void fill idolatry/Search gods to meet your interest/Boil down to finding the easiest lifestyle/Where there is no sacrifice.
Here's a slap in the face from "Braille": There are none so blind as those who refuse to see/Your hardened heart/Your prideful thoughts/Your selfish lie/Gouged out your eyes/They only see the road to hell. This CD has good production and is very tight and organized. If you like this one after you hear it, sorry, but the band has pretty much broken up with only the singer left.
8/10
Other Staff Member Ratings
Grindboy: 9.5/10
D_Lister: 7.5/10
Other coverage for this album
Dead Zine 2002Reviewed by sesspoolThis is a very good hardcore album... that has to be said first and foremost here. Overcome is the true original pioneers of what is now known as hardcore. Just because the Focused made a couple albums of strange and weak hardcore two years before overcome made their powerful debut Blessed Are the Persecuted, does not mean that most bands found their entire influence from the Focused. IMO…Dead Zine 2002Reviewed by SFhxcSFI know some people don't like this cd, but I love it. The music is great and it's fast! All the songs on this cd are good. I like all of them, not one of them displeases me. Guitar work is sweet, it's metalcore, and it's good. The vocals! I like Jason Stinson's vocals a lot, they kind of remind me of Coalesce's style. Lyrics are really really good. The first song is about abortion and it…Similar sounding releases
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