Dead Icons - Condemned
Rating
RIYL
Call To PreserveSworn Enemy
Hardside
Comeback Kid
Release Date
01/24/2012
Label
Bullet Tooth RecordsTracklist
01 Folding Aces02 The Longer You Wait
03 Survival
04 No Pain Goes Unpunished
05 Vultures
06 Life Of Uncertainty
07 True Potential
08 Condemned
09 Hourglass
10 Everything Has A Price
11 The Curse
12 Sincerely
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One of the first offerings in hardcore of 2012 comes from Kentucky’s Dead Icons, a relatively unknown band on Bullet Tooth Records. This is the follow up to an EP released last year called Vultures. The band’s first full length has some pummeling songs; “Survival”, “No Pain Goes Unpunished”, and “True Potential” are going to be some of the best hardcore songs you’ll hear all year, unless the rest of the hardcore world puts out incredible records at every turn. Dead Icons relies heavily on the connection between guitar riffs and drum patterns, which is refreshing when breakdowns and two-steps seem to litter songs as of late.
Yet, one of the biggest problems with hardcore albums is how they tend to drag on. Condemned suffers from this problem, especially after the first half of the record. There isn’t a bad song on the record, there’s just a lot of filler. Another EP would’ve been a better idea instead of releasing a full-length with great songs that are blurred out by a slew of mediocre ones.
Condemned isn’t a bad record. The problem is that a year from now, I don’t see it holding up. There’s not enough to keep hardcore fans coming back outside of a select few songs and awesome vocals. For the time being, though, it’s a good effort to keep us waiting for new releases from Terror and Hardside. If you really want an outstanding release so early in the year, go check out the new EP from Suburban Scum instead.
--Alex Miller
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