Artist: Ink & Dagger
Album: Drive This Seven Inch Wooden Dagger Through My Philadelphia Heart
Release: 1997
Label: Initial
Tracklist:
1. The Road To Hell
2. Shadowtalker
3. Caretaker
4. Full Circle
5. The Changeling
6. Frigid Shortcomings
7. Newspaper Tragedy
8. Bloodlust
9. My Ladylove
10. Crawler
Holding the distinction of being the best vampire-themed band the ever-diverse and vast hardcore world has ever produced, besting even the incomparable Bring Me the Horizon, Ink & Dagger remain one of my favorite 90s hardcore bands. Or, at least based their first two 7"s, Love Is Dead and Drive This Seven Inch Wooden Dagger Through My Philadelphia Heart, which is collected here on a CD of the same name as the second EP.
The band is known not only for its blood-soaked hardcore, but perhaps equally for its members. Their vocalist, Sean McCabe, was a notorious junkie, threw yogurt at Earth Crisis and eggs at Hare Krishnas (lol), vomited on Christmas trees (is this xtreme?), and falsely reported the death of a fellow musician on a certain messageboard, only months before actually dying himself in some shitty motel from an OD. Oh, and this guy was in the band. [Note: please view comments for more accurate takes on the half-truths I'm reciting above.]
Still, their best feature was their sound. While the band occasionally trips over the goofiness of mid-90s hardcore (why is it all so bouncy???), it's mostly excellent stuff with incredible guitar interplay and appropriate heaviness. Every song on this is solid, but there are many standouts. The organ-drenched "The Road To Hell" sets things off perfectly for the comp with an "evil" count-off performed under a faux-goth atmosphere, "My Ladylove" features male-female vocals spouting off pre-Twilight teen vampire romance, and "Bloodlust" and "Full Circle" feature two of the album's best vocal moments. For the time period from which they emerged, the band's sound holds up incredibly well.
For me (and most others, I assume), this collection is the definitive Ink & Dagger release. I like some parts of The Fine Art of Original Sin, but it, as well as their crappy later stuff, doesn't quite capture the black magic found here. Spooooooooooky.
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-Adam
Album: Drive This Seven Inch Wooden Dagger Through My Philadelphia Heart
Release: 1997
Label: Initial
Tracklist:
1. The Road To Hell
2. Shadowtalker
3. Caretaker
4. Full Circle
5. The Changeling
6. Frigid Shortcomings
7. Newspaper Tragedy
8. Bloodlust
9. My Ladylove
10. Crawler
Holding the distinction of being the best vampire-themed band the ever-diverse and vast hardcore world has ever produced, besting even the incomparable Bring Me the Horizon, Ink & Dagger remain one of my favorite 90s hardcore bands. Or, at least based their first two 7"s, Love Is Dead and Drive This Seven Inch Wooden Dagger Through My Philadelphia Heart, which is collected here on a CD of the same name as the second EP.
The band is known not only for its blood-soaked hardcore, but perhaps equally for its members. Their vocalist, Sean McCabe, was a notorious junkie, threw yogurt at Earth Crisis and eggs at Hare Krishnas (lol), vomited on Christmas trees (is this xtreme?), and falsely reported the death of a fellow musician on a certain messageboard, only months before actually dying himself in some shitty motel from an OD. Oh, and this guy was in the band. [Note: please view comments for more accurate takes on the half-truths I'm reciting above.]
Still, their best feature was their sound. While the band occasionally trips over the goofiness of mid-90s hardcore (why is it all so bouncy???), it's mostly excellent stuff with incredible guitar interplay and appropriate heaviness. Every song on this is solid, but there are many standouts. The organ-drenched "The Road To Hell" sets things off perfectly for the comp with an "evil" count-off performed under a faux-goth atmosphere, "My Ladylove" features male-female vocals spouting off pre-Twilight teen vampire romance, and "Bloodlust" and "Full Circle" feature two of the album's best vocal moments. For the time period from which they emerged, the band's sound holds up incredibly well.
For me (and most others, I assume), this collection is the definitive Ink & Dagger release. I like some parts of The Fine Art of Original Sin, but it, as well as their crappy later stuff, doesn't quite capture the black magic found here. Spooooooooooky.
Download Here
-Adam
15 comments:
Hello! Sean faking George's death occurred over four years prior. In addition, Sean was more into coke than the brown frown from what I remember.
There is also a YouTube clip of that show where he threw yogurt (and wore a fur coat). He was also a longtime straight edge stalwart.
The "Sensation" 7" is better than the first LP, I think! Not crappy. I never heard that second LP.
This is def my favorite release but I LOVE the last LP.
lordedge - thanks for correcting me, haha. I forgot that the Sensation 7" is actually pretty good.
-Adam
Their self titled LP is a masterpiece. Clearly the best record they ever released.
I LOVE the s/t LP. A little bit shoegazy, a little bit hc, awesome lyrics and weird guitar parts I love all their stuff but I think that might be my favorite material. I'm really bummed I passed on seeing them.
Road to Hell is one of my all time favorite tracks, but I think I like the s/t the most
It's not working for me for some reason and my computer can run Zip files.
Jenny - Email us and maybe we can figure out another way to get the mp3s to you!
-Adam
Will do!
But to whom do I e-mail?
Our email address is in our "info" section.
I assume you've heard about their upcoming reunion performance? If not, it's this August at This Is Hardcore Fest in Philly with vocal duties being taken up by Geoff Rickley of Thursday. I'm not sure how I feel about this haha
Haha I was trying to avoid mentioning that
I think kids are sick over that Rickly business.
HOTE FOR THOSE HAVING TROUBLE WITH THE FILE: The name of the file seems to be too long for some and cuts off the end of it, which includes the ".zip" portion.
At least on the computer I'm on now, it currently reads "Ink & Dagger - Drive This Seven Inch Wooden Stake Through My Philadelphia Heart (icoulddietomorrow.b" if you just add "logspot.com).zip" (without the quotation marks, obviously) it should turn the file back into a .zip and that should work!
Sorry for the hassle!
-Adam
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