Madball Wisdom in Chains Family Biz review

Madball / Wisdom in Chains

Family Biz

FastBreak!

September 25^th

Two of the hardest working bands in hardcore are releasing a tantalizing split 7” just to let you know they are still coming hard. Honest. Sincere. Commited. Consistent. Madball and Wisdom in Chains are holding it down with a track each until Madball’s full length comes out on 2018.

Madball’s side comes packed with their revered energy. The track, For the Cause is also the name of their impending full length. This track continues with the firestorm they have been unleashing. The Mitts era is a gallery of classics; Legacy, Empire, Infiltrate the System, the three eps; and most recently Hardcore Lives. This feels right off of any recent. Only news I can find is that the full length will be on Nuclear Blast, no word on release date or producer. The tough, crisp track sounds like the prior ones – hopefully meaning Erik Rutan is behind the boards or even Zeuss. “For the Cause”, is vicious. Slamming track.

The flipside is blessed by the PAHC champs, Wisdom in Chains. As a bonus, Mad Joe shares the mic with Freddy Madball on “Someday”. Mad Joe’s gift to the hardcore community has always been raw, personal lyrics. We get emotionally open lyrics, contemplating what a man’s legacy will be, with solid melodic guitar lines over rough, beastly rhythms. WIC’s low chug is savage and will incite any crowd to point, swing, dive and stomp. It’s a fast, forward focused 4/4 beat with ripe time changes for cathartic pauses and two-steps.

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Vinyl Pressing Info:

15 - TEST PRESSINGS

100 - GOLD w/ HEAVY BLACK SPLATTER

100 - OPAQUE GREY w/ 14 CLOUDY CLEAR (color in color)

100 - OPAQUE GREY / BLACK (half & half )

100 - TRANS BLUE w/ ORANGE (a side / b side )

200 - GOLD (Coretex Records Exclusive )

200 - OPAQUE BLUE (Reality Records Exclusive )

700 - BLACK
 or Nuclear Blast (their new label) has pre-order of NUKE GREEN VINYL

Lifeless Interview Dream Album

Lifeless

Dream

Fast Break! Records

Interview by hutch

Interview with: Jeremy

Members: Jeremy – Vocals; Kyle – Guitar; Michael – Drums; Ryan – Bass; Jay - Guitar

Lifeless NLFTW formed from the ashes of Dead and Buried and When These Days End in 2008. Reborn, the members spewed vitriolic hardcore based metal from the start. Their demo and debut full length surprised the scene with the hate and furor compacted in three minute tracks. Lifeless followed up with a seven inch on Harvcore again. Lifeless continued touring, providing sweat drenched angry shows for legions of hardcore kids ready to exorcise their demons. Lifeless play hardcore in the vein of Born From Pain, 100 Demons, and Integrity without apology. Now, on Fast Break! Records, Lifeless’ Dreams unleashes the most focused and calculated music they have created yet.

This album is as heavy as heavy gets. Tell me about production/recording? Working with Len Carmichael?

In previous recordings, we rushed certain aspects of them. This session, however, we really took our time. The time from the pre-production demos to the final product was literally a year. We continue to grow and evolve just as Len Carmichael does. With his “devil's advocate” approach at times, he kept us on our toes to put out our best efforts and ideas. He is easy to deal with, but not a push-over. He voices his honest opinions for the benefit of the band and the overall recording. To us, Dream is exactly how Lifeless should have sounded in a studio all along.

How is FastBreak! Records?

It's great to work with people who you look up to, who are your friends, and who want to take a serious and professional approach to releasing and promoting the music. The truly organic music we make without taking control of any process other than pressing the record and putting the word out there with us. They believed in us and gave us the wheel to steer as we saw fit. Truly, it's been a great, rewarding, and eye-opening experience.

Are you anxious to get this out – been four years since a full length.

Yes and no. Anxious because some of these songs are two years old, but we all agreed not to rush the recording process. Now that we're on the cusp of it landing in people's hands and putting it out there for everyone to hear, the anxiety somewhat subsides.

“But the hoping is useless, cuz it won’t ever change” – so what should we put effort into?

That lyric is really talking about working day to day while barely affording the roof over your head, food in your stomach, and trying to find a better way to live your life instead of sitting there hoping things will just change one day and you will be happy. Most people accept their fate, work their lives away, and wait for the ultimate price to be paid; death. If anything, find what you truly believe is right, “your path” in other words, and peruse it at all costs whatever it may be.

Your lyrics are quite negative (that’s why I like it) – or should I say realistic? *“All the people you love will turn on you… there’s nothing you can do” What makes life worth putting effort into (like a band…)?

I'd say the biggest thing that gets me up each day is this band and the experiences I have through hardcore. The anticipation and excitement of playing or going to the next show is what really keeps me going most of the time. It's the only place I can really let go of strife. I feel better than I ever do anywhere else. I hold onto that vibe with me until the next show.

What does 2015 hold for tours/shows?

Shows, shows, and more shows to support the release of Dream. We are playing a few fests, some of which have been announced and some that haven't, but we will get our ugly mugs and angry, “dark hardcore” jams everywhere we can get them. From all over the US, to Europe, and hopefully even Japan. Just not Canada; their border control really doesn't like us for some reason! We're angels, I swear.