March 10, 2011
LIFELESS "NLFTW" Review
8:43 PM | 
From the mind of
IH8YH |
BAND: LIFELESS
ALBUM: NLFTW (No Love for the World)
LABEL: Harvcore / Filled With Hate Record
YEAR: 2011
TRACKS TO CHECK: "Born Dead", "Unstoppable" and "NLFTW"
LENGTH: 9 Tracks with a total of about 23 minutes
New Jersey has brought so many amazing and seriously hard bands over time.. you all know the names very good. LIFELESS is the next name to add to that list of bone breaking hardcore.
The first thing that came into my mind when i started listening was a beatdown version of 100Demons and i still think (after listening to the record for a felt thousand times) that is pretty accurate. this is hard as nails... like.. the torture scenes in "Neighbour".
Starting with the intro (that is connected to the first song), you'll know exactly what kinda ride you are in for with the first riff. A band that has one of the best moshparts and a singalong in their intro already can't be bad right?! correct. I mean most bands keep stuff like this for their final song, the BEST song, these guys bust it out on their intro and from here on it only gets better!
I don't wanna get to specific about songs here because i can't really pick which ones i wanna talk about, they are all great. and by great I mean brutal. Filled with beatdown parts, doublebass parts, gangvocals and tons of sing-a-longs (which is rare in todays beatdown universe if you ask me), the barking voice reminds me of old SHATTERED REALM and a darker version of DENIED. Eurokids will very probably compare this to NASTY and they are right to a certain degree. LIFELESS make good use of their style of beatdown hardcore and overall are a lot slower than NASTY, "NLFTW" feels a lot more balanced than NASTY though, which i give credit to the good dosis of old american beatdown hardcore in the vein of (again) DENIED and BULLDOZE.
Guestvocals come from none other than James Stikman Ismean from Fury of Five and Boxcutter (on "No Way Out" and Max from DoubleDealer (on "Disgust"). my favorite guestpart here though is from John AnimalHouse, he's on the titletrack "NLFTW".
Overall its an amazingly well written and brutal record!! Especially for todays beatdown standards. I can't wait for the eurotour these guys will in do March!
for exterminators of the fuckin' weak and fans of 100 Demons, Denied, Nasty, spiked baseball bats.
8 of 10 Points (-2 because i wished the record would have been 10 minutes longer!)
ALBUM: NLFTW (No Love for the World)
LABEL: Harvcore / Filled With Hate Record
YEAR: 2011
TRACKS TO CHECK: "Born Dead", "Unstoppable" and "NLFTW"
LENGTH: 9 Tracks with a total of about 23 minutes
New Jersey has brought so many amazing and seriously hard bands over time.. you all know the names very good. LIFELESS is the next name to add to that list of bone breaking hardcore.
The first thing that came into my mind when i started listening was a beatdown version of 100Demons and i still think (after listening to the record for a felt thousand times) that is pretty accurate. this is hard as nails... like.. the torture scenes in "Neighbour".
Starting with the intro (that is connected to the first song), you'll know exactly what kinda ride you are in for with the first riff. A band that has one of the best moshparts and a singalong in their intro already can't be bad right?! correct. I mean most bands keep stuff like this for their final song, the BEST song, these guys bust it out on their intro and from here on it only gets better!
I don't wanna get to specific about songs here because i can't really pick which ones i wanna talk about, they are all great. and by great I mean brutal. Filled with beatdown parts, doublebass parts, gangvocals and tons of sing-a-longs (which is rare in todays beatdown universe if you ask me), the barking voice reminds me of old SHATTERED REALM and a darker version of DENIED. Eurokids will very probably compare this to NASTY and they are right to a certain degree. LIFELESS make good use of their style of beatdown hardcore and overall are a lot slower than NASTY, "NLFTW" feels a lot more balanced than NASTY though, which i give credit to the good dosis of old american beatdown hardcore in the vein of (again) DENIED and BULLDOZE.
Guestvocals come from none other than James Stikman Ismean from Fury of Five and Boxcutter (on "No Way Out" and Max from DoubleDealer (on "Disgust"). my favorite guestpart here though is from John AnimalHouse, he's on the titletrack "NLFTW".
Overall its an amazingly well written and brutal record!! Especially for todays beatdown standards. I can't wait for the eurotour these guys will in do March!
for exterminators of the fuckin' weak and fans of 100 Demons, Denied, Nasty, spiked baseball bats.
8 of 10 Points (-2 because i wished the record would have been 10 minutes longer!)
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Awesome band. Good mosh, brutal and a kind of 90s vibe. If you are into Lifeless you can't go wrong to check out Lies! (http://www.facebook.com/liesharcore) they are from The Netherlands in Europe.. or Ruckus, Backtrack, Dead End Path from the states.