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 Review by: Anchors See others by this writer ![[staff]](/images/icons/staffsticker.gif){kind=icon}
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Published on February 4th 2005
There are several ways to start off on the wrong foot with me as a band. One of the absolute worst things you could do is cite Hatebreed as a major influence to your artistic development. That’s not starting one foot in the grave, that‘s being half an inch from sealing the casket door. Well, Germany’s latest export is Maroon, attempting to launch themselves into the American market with their album Endorsed By Hate. Fitting, really, because that’s the emotion I feel towards this band for stepping inside a recording studio. I’m sure plenty of kids here in the states will eat this stuff up, but for anybody with any sort of discriminating taste, don’t even look in this album's direction.
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Riz, Wow, Anchors really got roasted. worlds apart Thank you hobbitcore - that's what I feel is so lacking of reviews like this one, objectivity. I personally tend to read CD reviews because I live in Hong Kong, China and we don't get to find out about bands out here except through sites like Punknews.org, Lambgoat etc. so reviews are very important to people like me who want to know what certain bands sound like. yeah i feel ya I can understand what you're saying, Hobbitcore, and I don't intend on making a habit of slandering bands in my reviews, but at the same time I wanted to give a bit of background as to where I was coming from on not liking my first impression of them. here's another little tidbit of advice I may have forgotten last time: first of all I´m from germany and I fell sorry for this ridiculous i actually like maroon 5. they're very good musicinans, they use a lot of jazz elements in their music, which is not easy. and girls love them. sorry if i enjoy getting laid. you keep rocking poison the well and see how many chicks will fuck you w/ that in the back ground. This band is so stupidly awesome. The early stuff with the spoken parts rule, if only because of the dude's accent. Here's some hardcore you might like Anchors. The funny thing is that there are bands as bad as this who claim to be keeping it "old school" (as in ten years ago, but whatever), but ten years ago Zeni Geva were making a much more unique combo of metal and hardcore, creating a noise/thrash/death metal/arty sound that predated Converge by some years... bring me back pg99,please god Good review by the way. Originally is pretty important, especially to people who have listened to a lot of the same music... ewww you make no sense like did anyone stop to think that maybe these bands that don't bring anything new to the table don't because they like the way they sound? why must everything be based off of originality? The Hatebreed I heard was so slickly produced. I can't really embrace aggresiveness when it sounds like old Def Lepard. Aggro stuff to get sunday morning makes me want to watch gay porn This review was pretty good. This is crap, I'll gve you that, but what's with your scorn for Hatebreed, did they anally rape your grandmother while pouring sugar in your gas tank? Hatebreed is semi-meathead moshy-mosh, but they have a few good tunes. I've got nothing against Abacus records, but you're right about my distaste for metalcore. I've just heard so much of it the past few years, that for a band of that genre to impress me, they've got to do something different. Anchors has another negative metalcore review coming up that I slightly disagree with, but he's right here. This is crap. If you want to hear some really insane german aggro stuff, pick up anything by Yacopsae. Your nuts will never forgive you. I don't know what Anchors has against Abacus Records, but I'm seeing this review and the Bleeding Kansas review being more about his distate in metallic hardcore than anything else. Maroon might not be inventing the wheel, but they're hardly worthy of such a poor rating. if you want some german metal, check out the older caliban releases. stay away from the new one though. oh my god, this band is so bad. absolutely over-hyped, rehashed, watered-dow and sucked out metalcore boredom. even though i'm from germany (and appreciate metalcore) i can't find just one selling point of this piece of crap. I think it was very mean Anchors. It was even better because you were somewhat articulate with your anger so, good job. Still not mean enough...but hey. I'm me. Everyone should read this review because it points out what's wrong with a huge portion of what's wrong right now. Score is for people who use the word "jock" as a verb. Fucking die. Score is for bands who have super clean production on their records. hey, a least they're not maroon 5 , right? Wow, a negative review by Anchors... didn't know it was possible. Maroon 5 without the ballz...... |
