To This Day - Chapter 1: Between The Bridges

To This Day
Chapter 1: Between The Bridges
1981 Records
4/10
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Hardcore music can be so frustrating. Remember when Punk started out as being about non-conformity and individualism, only to fall victim to becoming the antithesis of its own intent? Hardcore bands are in exactly the same boat these days. Lots of bitching and posturing, you can mimic it even if you just picked up an instrument and the box in which you can operate musically is so small; a mosquito's ass is large by comparison.

The sticker on the CD says for fans of Hatebreed, Every Time I Die and Dead To Fall. What a shit crock, because this record sounds nothing like those bands. It's some of the hands-down, poorest name dropping imaginable. To This Day (that's an inspired name, you've got there, guys) pretty much imitates LCD modern hardcore with so little stylistic variation it’s flipping mind-numbing. Let's say this; it doesn't take a college education to beat the hell out of the E string, alright? Much of the time, Chapter 1: Between The Bridges sounds like a kid that's learning to play guitar is strumming along to the recording. It's that rudimentary. Monkis, the band's drummer has some talent and it rises to the top when the band’s elementary song structures allow, which ain't too freaking often.

So with Chapter 1: Between The Bridges, you can expect plenty of what hardcore is all about in this day and age, i.e. - the same old shit. Maybe those 90 lb. weaklings with uber-low self esteem need music like this to make them feel like they have a place to belong. Maybe they need to go and eat a big, thick, juicy steak as well.

By:Musclehead