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Hardcore Metal makes a Comeback!!!
Publisher: Ferret Music through Shock
Tue, 26 April 2005
by: Fazz
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As most of us will have noticed, metal has been blistering back into our consciousness over the past few years. And I for one can say “Excellent”! I love heavy music. Remembering Never is a band that take metal to the extreme. Blistering onto the scene a few years back with their debut release “Suffocates my Words” in 2001, the band has progressed steadily through stages of punk-rock and metal with the lineup change for their 2002 release “She Looks so Good in Red” and finally perfecting their art for 2004’s “Women and Children Die First”.
“Women and Children Die First is a bastard steamroller of an album. The opening track “For the Love of Fiction” is like having a bomb dropped on your ears. Talk about taking extreme hardcore music to the next level. This track is the perfect opener, offering heavy, heavier and even heavier still riffs until you start wondering how these guys got so angry. Next up we have “The Grenade in Mouth Tragedy”. Slowing the pace but not the intensity, Remembering Never spin off in a slightly more melodic direction. Moving between smooth guitar chordal progressions into disgustingly heavy verses seems to becoming an art for this young band. Moving on to track # 3 we are drawn into “Plotting a Revolution in A-Minor”. This track picks up the earlier pace a little bit, showing us that this band are not content to let you off the hook. This song also introduces the rough yet melodic vocal side of the band.
Track 4 bring us “The Glutton”. The introduction reminds us of a more traditional metal song. Don’t let this fool you. The song quickly progresses into a Meshuggah-esq off-time free-for-all with slight pauses, presumably to let your enfeebled ears take a break for 2-3 seconds. “From My Cold, Dead Hands” is track 5. The song title says it all. If heavy and hard is what you want, you’ve got it! This song bludgeons the senses during the verse sections, yet slips into a more melodic space during the pre-choruses. Not allowing time to recover, the choruses are heavier than ever. On to track 6, we get “The Color of Blood and Money”. A dissonant, violent, ball-buster of a track. Will this band ever let up? I hear you ask… The answer being “Hell No!”
Moving through the second half of the album we have “Incisions” coming in a track # 7. Bursting into the outright extreme, this band lists the pace and tension even higher by shifting rapidly between 4/4 punk/metal into 6/8 half-time melodic heaviness and everything in between. “Closed Caskets” is up at track 8. Showing us they’ve still got some punk/hardcore roots, this song lifts off with a misleading hardcore intro, leading us to believe we may actually get to hear something commercially acceptible. How wrong we are. Sure the song has singing and melodic elements, but it’s not something the vast majority of the force-fed public could digest. Track # 9 brings us “All that Glitters is…” Some of you may recognize the drum intro as being reproduced in a loop on MTV’s “Viva La Bam”. This track is all over the place. Hard and fast once minutes, driving rock and metal the next. Moving on…
The last song on this record is “Serenading this Dead Horse”. Remembering Never take a whole different approach with this track. Bringing together elements of dissonant, progressive metal, black metal and punk/hardcore, and this track would have to be my favorite on this record. “F*#k your broken Heart” is the chant for this song, proving to us once and for all that this band has some serious aggression.
Just when you thought it was over, Remembering Never dose up a bonus track… a brilliant rendition of Pantera’s “Stronger than All”. This band finally achieve to a modern standard what many have been trying to do since Pantera’s metal-reign in the mid-90’s. Downtuned and hardcore all the way.
Remembering Never’s “Women and Children Die First” isn’t a record for the faint-of-heart, or for that matter, anyone who routinely enjoys pop chart music. This is extreme hardcore metal at its best. This band reminds me of a weird mix of Atreyu, Melbourne’s own Damaged and finally system of a down, with some other elements thrown in the mix. If you’re into metal, definitely check this record out.
www.RememberingNever.net
by: Fazz
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