TO DIE FOR - ''Virus infection control'' CD
Genere: chaos hardcore
Mark
: 7,6/10
Label: Heroine Records
Year: 2002
Length: 8 tracks - 24:07 min
Link: To Die For
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Favourite Tracks: ''Curse of the undead'', ''Vampire vixens from venus''

Od bendov, ki jih spremljaš skozi leta, običajno pričakuješ, da bodo z vsako plato boljši, ter istočasno razvijali svoj zvok v nekaj slajšega, zrelejšega, nekaj kar bo kos tvojemu spreminjajočem se okusu. To Die For gredo zagotovo po tej poti in s tem prvim velikim albumom jim je uspelo ustvariti tisto čemur jaz pravim napredek. Prišlo je do precej obilne preobrazbe in bi rekel, da so se od njihove zadnje plate (split z Engrave), glasbeno tako oddaljili, da bi jih skorajda lahko imel za novo zasedbo. Edino kar še veleče na bend, ki sem ga poznal pred leti je svojevrstno kričanje vokalista in tu pa tam kakšena drobna malenkost pri rifih. Fantje so zašli v močne Converge vplive oz. v divji chaos-metal, kot je popularen te dni, ter pri tem dodali še kakšen Disembodied predel ali pa kaj čisto svojega in tako dobili precej energicno glasbo z dobro dozo hitre in počasne rušilnosti, ter silovitih izbruhov jeze. Komadi so odlično narejeni, da ne govorim o kitaristu, ki izbira same dobre rife in lepo poskrbi za kaotičnost. Glasba je res odlična, nimam pa povsem istega mnenja o visokem kričanju vokalista, ki nekako nima tiste prave sile, kot jo ima sama glasba. Vokal sicer ni zoprn ali kaj podobnega, pač pa mislim, da bi bila zadeva z malo več grobosti zanimivejša. Od prejšnjih To Die For ostajajo tudi dobri teksti, ki so vsi bolj ali manj zapisani kot kritika moderne družbe. Booklet je napolnjen s strah vzbujajočimi podobami in deluje precej zmedeno za moje pojme, ampak ok, takšen pač je naslov albuma. Kaj naj rečem, dobra plata, dosti boljše kot sem pričakoval! Vokal sicer malce šepa ampak brez Alaina, bi bil to že popolnoma drug bend. ''Is it better to have love and lost than to have never loved at all...''

TO DIE FOR/ ENGRAVE - ''All the passion to keep you moving'' 10''

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MUSIC: LYRICS:
I think this two young European bands To die for from Italy and Engrave from Germany are great couple for sharing this album. Both bands play metallic new school HC and both bands have great, smart and educational lyrics! For example Engrave lyrics talks about media, capitalism and consecutions of both, love as a sense of life and ideas like try to find yourself. There are also explanations for every song, which are of course extra points for this band. Great live band! To die for are not as fast as Engrave but they have more break downs and distorted parts. Their lyrics are very good written but it's kind of hard for me to define them on the appointed subjects, so it would be a good think if they would have wrote explanations as their dudes did. I like this record!
DEFIANCE REC., RITTERSTRASSE 50, 50668 KOLN, GERMANY defiancerecords@aol.com http://surf.to/engrave

TO DIE FOR

Great new Italian HC band. I saw them quite some times playing live and I must say that they are better and better. NIce kids! Check out their split 10'' with Engrave!!
Germany 01/07/00