21.5.09

Paint It Black - Paradise


Paint It Black - Paradise

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?oemtzdmmnlw
  1. "Pink Slip"
  2. "Exit Wounds"
  3. "Ghosts"
  4. "The New Brutality"
  5. "Atheists In Foxholes"
  6. "Nicaragua"
  7. "Labor Day"
  8. "Burn The Hive"
  9. "Panic"
  10. "Angel"
  11. "The Pharmacist"
  12. "365"
  13. "Memorial Day"


Paradise is the 2nd full length out of one of the best bands in hardcore right now, Paint It Black. They're an extremely political and passionate band started by Dan Yemin (a practicing child psychologist, former member of Lifetime and Kid Dynamite, started band after having a stroke and deciding that he wasn't going to let it keep him down and started the hardest band he could do) and one of the most influential bands of my recent life.

I had heard of Paint It Black from one of my friends and didn't think much about them at first. He was extremely into them, but every kid has their band to get stoked on, and it didn't mean I would like them. Nonetheless, when I checked them out at home, I was in for a treat.

It was some of the most powerful stuff I had heard. The inherent sound of outrage and anger hit me like a brick to the face. Here was a band with some passion behind it and lyrics that actually meant something to me. No more generic hardcore "I stand by my friends, I hate everyone" lyrics, but lyrics about what I was getting into: social and political activism, anti-authoritarianism, and in general, pretty radical stuff that most "hardcore" bands don't even touch. I could care less how straight edge the band was, I'd rather be hearing about shit like the corruption of authoritarian religion and the ongoing war between us and the established order.

After a slew of bands made up of kids being raised on dry, commercial metalcore with no real message, Paint It Black was a breath of fresh air - no, a hammer to the skull - in a scene that had lost its teeth.

Paint It Black: Making hardcore revolutionary again.

2 comments:

  1. sweet thanks for the new band to listen to. this is why i added more people! so it wouldn't just be me posting stuff i already know. hahahaha.

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