Your Demise - The Golden Age
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RIYL
Comeback KidStick to Your Guns
Lower Than Atlantis
Much the Same
Release Date
03/26/2012
Label
Visible NoiseTracklist
1. The Golden Age2. These Lights
3. Born A Snake
4. Push Me Under
5. Paper Trails
6. Forget About Me
7. I'm (Not) the One
8. Never A Dull Moment
9. The Colour of Envy
10. A Decade Drifting
11. Worthless
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I’ve finally come to terms with the fact that the old Your Demise is not to return. I was somewhat let down by the new direction of The Kids We Used to Be, but I was also able to get some decent mileage out of it once I left behind my expectations and realized it wasn’t the same band. Look, I’m all for stylistic shifts. Once This Is Hell discovered Megadeth it took some time for them to find their footing, hitting relative stumbling blocks in the form of Warbirds and Weight of the World, but eventually they released the album of a lifetime with Black Mass. I’m not calling The Golden Age the album of a lifetime, but it’s clear Your Demise has become much more comfortable in their new skin this time around.
The band continues to acknowledge that we aren’t getting the UK’s answer to Terror back any time soon when vocalist Ed McRae howls, “I’m not the kid that you once knew!” on “I’m (Not) the One.” Point taken. So what are we getting with The Golden Age? A new dawn of hardcore enlightenment as the title seems to suggest? Not quite, but I can’t say enough about how impressed I am by the breadth of territory the record covers, and how the band manages to combine pop-punk, tough-guy moshcore, ’90s Epitaph punk, and everything in between into this kind of panorama or state of the union of the UK scene.
It takes some balls to assume the position of spokesmen, but Your Demise capably situate themselves by not only backing their position with attitude and some very strong music, but through a glut of rubber-stamping guest vocal spots (not all of which are British, but I digress), including, but not limited to, individuals from Terror/Down to Nothing, Last Witness, You Me At Six, Brutality Will Prevail, and letlive. Though these guest spots aid the diversity of the album, they do unfortunately expose possibly the offering’s greatest weakness: Ed McRae. He’s serviceable, but being slotted against Jason Butler of letlive. definitely shows his limitations. On lead single “These Lights,” The Offspring curveball that had fans cringing in anticipation of The Golden Age, McRae is relegated to the background, basically a guest on his own song, though it really is for the best, as his rasp doesn’t seem to fit the track. He sounds more at home on hardcore bangers like “Born a Snake” and “Forget About Me” (also not without its own guest spot).
I definitely find The Golden Age to be a success. I’m not sure I’ll ever enjoy this incarnation of Your Demise as much the beatdown merchants of yore, but The Golden Age is still a damn fine record that speaks to friendship, the open road, and good times.
--Jacob Oliver
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Reno, NV
Damn, I didn't even know this was out, or that it was even coming out, on my birthday no less. Hmmm. And I'm totally with you Jake on the Black Mass album. Great, great tunes.
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Preach brother, preach!
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Illinois
this really didn't appeal to me in the first few listens. not sure why cause i loved their last record, but i'll give a few more spins.
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