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Josiah

Verona (2004)
Indie Vision

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Contributed by: Brian
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Published on August 20th 2004

“On the first day, God created Man.
On the second day, He created lame metalcore.”

Repetitive and bland, mosh-ready riffs with dissonant growled yells are the formula for every one of these entirely-too-long songs on Josiah’s debut full-length, Verona. The band is indeed Christian-founded, but you couldn’t tell without a packet of liner notes (or a subtle press release); every word vocalist Joshua Lee screams is completely indecipherable, which actually wouldn’t be such a bad thing if he didn’t do it for the good part of forty-eight fucking minutes. There’s very occasional use of spoken word vocals that sound trite as hell and an instance of more melodic singing that’s nicely used in “This is the New War” and finally answers my own prayer for mixing it up at least a small bit.

There’s no need to ever bag on a band for taking such a profound interest in religion and using it as a strong base for their songwriting, but when it’s fronting these type of blah-worthy antics without any decent sense of musicianship or creativity, the package deal is something left to be desired.

MP3s
An Elegy For An Admiral
Harley Quinn
STREAM
Verona Forgotten
Todd P. Hepler
This is the New War

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Anonymous (December 20, 2004)

POSER! Bleeding through and Atreyu aren't metal bands you dick. metal died a long time ago. Jesus is here, faggy

-THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD

Anonymous (August 26, 2004)

Gay

Anonymous (August 25, 2004)

This is nothing to get upset over people. These reviews are typical of bands (and people in general) who decide to devote their band's music to God. If you want to do a review of "Christianity", you should tag it as such and maybe move it to a different section.

inagreendase (August 24, 2004)

The thing is, I like a good handful of metalcore bands. These just obviously aren't some of them.

johnnydanger (August 24, 2004)

stop giving metalcore cds to people who don't like metalcore. i agree with jordan's comment below. score is for the review and BSD's REALLY UNFUNNY comments

punkcorekid (August 23, 2004)

Haven't heard this, but the first thing that came to mind was the band Nehemiah, who rock dick and were rocking said dick several years ago.

Anonymous (August 23, 2004)

this score is for music.

kirbypuckett (August 23, 2004)

Are Kirby and InAGreenDase getting into real music? But I think you guys still like Thrice, Finch, and Thursday, so whatever.

Brian and myself only listen to Miles Davis and the Starland Vocal Band. The rest of music is just complete garbage.

- Kirby

Anonymous (August 22, 2004)

score is for any and all bands that feel the need to mention God in there songs.. you know, in the gay "PRAISE HIM!!" manner that they do it.

Anonymous (August 22, 2004)

i think the reviewer's right. new kids coming up are following the flock of metal-core bands because it's easy to scream and write heavy, speed picked riffs. and there seems to be a stigma against melody and singing (ie. if you do it, you suck) and a near dress-code at the shows. this scene is pathetic right now.

Anonymous (August 21, 2004)

Jeeeeeeeevussss! Save meeeeeee!!!

-BSD

tahoejeff (August 21, 2004)

Jeeeeeesusssssssss!!!

josiah (August 21, 2004)

i will be suing them for ruining my good name.

- josiah

Anonymous (August 20, 2004)

Are Kirby and InAGreenDase getting into real music? But I think you guys still like Thrice, Finch, and Thursday, so whatever.

One the first day, God made jews. On the second day, he told them that it wouldn't work out.

This Christmas, Adam Sandler has got

"A Date With Jesus"

-BSD

Anonymous (August 20, 2004)

score is for the review and the reviewer. stop please, you dont understand a thing about hc and metal.

pastepunk (August 20, 2004)

this is a pretty worthless review. while the lead vocals aren't particularly amazing on this release, the musicianship and songwriting is rather strong and intense. the band may not be the most original, but dismissing them off-hand as 'lame metalcore' serves no one...

mykindofmurder (August 20, 2004)