Damination A.D.

In This Life Or The Next

[3.5/5]

Before metalcore was a real genre, Damnation A.D. and a few other bands from the ’90s hardcore scene were tuning their guitars down to L and bringing the misery-filled mosh. It doesn’t even matter that half of Fall Out Boy appear on this record, or that credible celebri-fans like Wes Eisold (Some Girls) and Karl Buechner (Earth Crisis) provide vocal cameos. The truth is that DAD could fart into a Radio Shack tape recorder and it would be better than most of the guyliner/sing-scream guano currently passed off as hardcore, metal or both. With two old gems-“The Hangedman” and “Rain Is My Veil”-re-worked for the world’s 21st century digital boys and girls, In This Life Or The Next does a good job bringing DAD into the present (their last release was in ’98); so does the sharpest production this band have seen. Gloomy, powerful and not a fifth-generation copy. (VICTORY) Ronen Kauffman