Artist: The Timebombs
Album: I Belong In Hell
Release: 2009
Label: Cowabunga!
Tracklist:
1. Safe For The Whole Family
2. Ugly On The Insde
3. 3
4. I Can't Feel
5. Strange Behavior
6. Hive Mind
7. Invade Me
8. True Death
9. Cracking
10. I Belong In Hell
11. Not Safe
For better or worse, the noisy hardcore thing doesn't seem to be going anywhere. At its worse, I've heard some terrible shit that bites the trend so hard I get chills from secondhand embarrassment (on the west coast, "we" call this being "chilly"). Still, some bands, while far from being mind-blowingly original, can still make a solid record. The Timebombs accomplish just that.
I remember hearing this California band awhile back and taking note of their fast and chaotic sound. After hearing I Belong In Hell, I noticed something had changed. I didn't remember their old recordings sounding this noisy and feedback-laden, so I'm assuming the influence by bands like Sex/Vid and Cult Ritual (a.k.a. Adult Contemporary Hardcore) has spread far and wide. Still, the band remains as crazy and frenetic as ever and this set of songs is a blast. The band wields white noise quite effectively. The one thing I feel it's missing (other than mosh parts. COME ON, YOU HERBS [note: directed at every noisy band]) is enough catchy parts. The record sometimes relies too much on the walls of noise and not enough on the song itself, but it's still an excellent record.
I would never want this review to turn into a "treatise" of the current state of hardcore and its trends and don't want it to take attention away from the band, because the Timebombs are indeed a good band. I would definitely recommend that everyone check out I Belong In Hell. There's a link right down there!
Less mysteries, more mosh, people! I can say that, I was just at a Life of Agony show.
Download Here
Buy Limited Version Here
Buy Black Version Here
-Adam
P.S. I'm also not really from the West Coast.
Album: I Belong In Hell
Release: 2009
Label: Cowabunga!
Tracklist:
1. Safe For The Whole Family
2. Ugly On The Insde
3. 3
4. I Can't Feel
5. Strange Behavior
6. Hive Mind
7. Invade Me
8. True Death
9. Cracking
10. I Belong In Hell
11. Not Safe
For better or worse, the noisy hardcore thing doesn't seem to be going anywhere. At its worse, I've heard some terrible shit that bites the trend so hard I get chills from secondhand embarrassment (on the west coast, "we" call this being "chilly"). Still, some bands, while far from being mind-blowingly original, can still make a solid record. The Timebombs accomplish just that.
I remember hearing this California band awhile back and taking note of their fast and chaotic sound. After hearing I Belong In Hell, I noticed something had changed. I didn't remember their old recordings sounding this noisy and feedback-laden, so I'm assuming the influence by bands like Sex/Vid and Cult Ritual (a.k.a. Adult Contemporary Hardcore) has spread far and wide. Still, the band remains as crazy and frenetic as ever and this set of songs is a blast. The band wields white noise quite effectively. The one thing I feel it's missing (other than mosh parts. COME ON, YOU HERBS [note: directed at every noisy band]) is enough catchy parts. The record sometimes relies too much on the walls of noise and not enough on the song itself, but it's still an excellent record.
I would never want this review to turn into a "treatise" of the current state of hardcore and its trends and don't want it to take attention away from the band, because the Timebombs are indeed a good band. I would definitely recommend that everyone check out I Belong In Hell. There's a link right down there!
Less mysteries, more mosh, people! I can say that, I was just at a Life of Agony show.
Download Here
Buy Limited Version Here
Buy Black Version Here
-Adam
P.S. I'm also not really from the West Coast.
6 comments:
nothing new, but cool all the same. thanks for this
ha chilly living on the southern part of west coast I never heard this term unless we are talking 3 for 20 bucks at chillys!
Urgh back in november I said I wasn't gonna dl anything for the rest of the year this really fucked me up.
lol "Adult Contemporary Hardcore." Is this your innovation?
appropriated from one Jack Samuel
-Adam
Soo gooooooood.
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