Pennywise - Reason To Believe - review
Pennywise - Reason To Believe - review
Tracklist
01. (Intro) As Long As We Can02. One Reason
03. Faith and Hope
04. Something to Live For
05. All We Need
06. The Western World
07. We'll Never Know
08. Confusion
09. Nothing to Lose
10. It's Not Enough to Believe
11. You Get the Life You Choose
12. Affliction
13. Brag, Exaggerate & Lie
14. Die for You
15. Next in Line
16. One Nation
17. Just One More Day
A review by
jupitreas May 29, 2008
The difference in attitude is not immediately obvious, but becomes noticeable with multiple listens. The band is still sloganeering and ranting their way through the barrage of aggressive hardcore punk; however, for the first time ever, the dark shadow of the futility of it all rears its ugly head and makes everything exponentially more interesting. Pennywise are fighting a lost battle, and they know it - the commercial peak of the music that they and their peers practised in the 90s is long gone, with fellow bands either completely selling out or falling apart. Their adolescent but literate anger has been made into a commodity marketed by Hot Topic - the monster has easily consumed and assimilated all but one regiment of the anti-conformist army - Pennywise. They unleash the most aggressive and vicious array of hyperactive hardcore yet - "It's Not Enough To Believe", "One Reason" or "You Get The Life You Choose" all rip along at a breakneck speed, together with thrashy crossover riffs and gang shout refrains, with the remaining songs generally matching or at least approaching this intensity. The music is catchy as hell; however, the band knows that it will no longer speak to anyone.
Reason To Believe sounds like the last stand of a few brave soldiers about to lose a war. The album is obviously an attempt at finding that eponymous nexus of meaning. That the band fails at this with the record is both an epitaph to what the genre could stand for and perhaps its last brilliant product.
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Posts: 5537 Written by jadawal on 02.06.2008 at 23:38 Oh yeah, that would be swell...
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Posts: 257 Written by LeChron James on 01.06.2008 at 04:31 good point...
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Posts: 3565 Written by Murder on 06.06.2008 at 08:40 sarcasm?
---- Kick Ass, Die Young Less is More Stay Pure Stay Poor Music was my life, music brought me to life and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz in my head that only I can hear.
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Posts: 9575 Written by dancingdecember on 30.05.2008 at 19:18 then go to the slayer page.
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Posts: 9575 Written by Thryce on 31.05.2008 at 18:09 i would also like to say this band has some good tunes but should not be reconized as a metal band,. that being said they have toured with metal bands. plus i dont see everybody complaining about bands like "The birthday massacre" which aren't metal? so seriously people DEAL WITH IT.
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Posts: 264 Written by Boxcar Willy on 05.08.2010 at 17:00 Sir, you are an idiot.
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Posts: 9575 Written by dancingdecember on 24.08.2010 at 15:49 I am an idiot? Ha ha.
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I can dig that Pennywise are here. Bad Religion and LagWagon might have a place here as well. Their early material has a distinct metallic edge to them (the singing is not metal though).
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Wow, Pennywise are on MS : 
---- "Aah! The cat turned into a cat!" - Reimu Hakurei
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