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Published on January 27th 2006
Whether you know him or not, Rob Lind hates you. Otherwise affectionately known as White Trash Rob, the man responsible for Boston’s Blood for Blood and Saints & Sinners, has gone out and recorded Kill a Celebrity, the first full-length for his side project Ramallah, in which he’s literally a jack of all trades. Only the extremely brief piano use on the album was played by somebody else, otherwise Rob handles all the instrumentation on the album, which presents a bit of a logistical problem as far as the band actually touring. I’m getting away from the point, however, and that point is that Rob Lind hates everyone.
A new millennium is christened in 2003, when tens of thousands are condemned to die / While we danced and drank fine wine, they were screaming to an empty sky, why? / Kill my mother, kill my father, what am I left to do? But kill your mother, kill your father / God… make my aim true, is anyone even listening? Does anyone even care? / 'Cause the beat just goes on and on, and the terror never ends / Tens of thousands were condemned to die, shock and awe / Terror.. is anyone listening? Can you hear the screaming? / Does anybody care, can you hear their screaming? Is anybody listening to the sounds of the innocent suffering, suffering silently? No.Those powerful words from the aptly named “Shock and Awe” are reflective of much of the record's content, but the problem is that power doesn’t always permeate into the music itself. Most of the songs, like the aforementioned “Shock and Awe,” have a solid hardcore metal sound, full of punishing riffs and spitfire vocals, but there’s a few misses on the album that really disrupt the flow. “A Day in the Life” sounds more nü-metal than anything, and the use of a vocoder is extremely irritating, as the combination of that over heavy riffs off in the distance just makes for a confusing, boring track. The title track, “Kill a Celebrity,” is the band, er, Rob Lind at his irate best, with his commanding presence really fueling the lyrical fires. I love that Lind is a varied songwriter, plenty capable of branching out, and one instance even shows that it works rather well for him. “Oscar Cotton” is a more low-key track with a memorable chorus, but the other tracks in this vein just seem to fall flat. Managing to parlay his success with Blood for Blood into yet another musical venture, Rob Lind paints a striking portrait of American culture with his words, and he’s got the gruff, powerful vocal chords and riffs to really pack a punch. Some hits, some misses, but a success overall. Please login or register to post comments. What are the benefits of having a Punknews.org account?
Really Good Album, their sound friggin' kicks ass. Seriously! awful band...i like dumb hardcore as much as the next guy, but this shit is just awful... funny thing about Rob "hating MTV" is that Ramallah has a video on MTV2 i got to play with Blood for Blood in 99, and they are the nicest dudes, rob was really rad To anyone who doesn't like Blood For Blood or Rob Lind, just remember he hates you too. skins and nazis are totally different. back in the day, BFB were widely supported by skins and punks alike. Bryan Styles: Can you tell us more about Rob chasing away the nazis? I remember seeing somebody calling BFB a nazi band back in the days, so this is interesting. as a conscious fatass who often wears black hooded sweatshirts but abhors camo shorts, i take offense to that gentleperson's gross overgeneralization of all of us listening to banal shit like ramallah, or blood for blood for that matter. you made me cry. :( i love how everything thinks its cool to rip on hardcore and hardcore dancing. crap like this makes me appreciate good/decent hardcore bands like Snapcase or By the Grace of God. this is craaaaappppy. "so, if i want to learn how to hxc dance, where would a guy go about learning? i live out in north dakota so an instructional tape would be best. i really want to learn b/c i'm moving to boston in the fall. gotta get down with the underground!" yeah. i think the quote is from "al shifa" from their first ep. Score is for Blood for Blood..... Anyway else love Outlaw Anthems? so, if i want to learn how to hxc dance, where would a guy go about learning? i live out in north dakota so an instructional tape would be best. i really want to learn b/c i'm moving to boston in the fall. gotta get down with the underground! all you fat asses in hooded black sweatshirts and army shorts can cram this album up your ape asses. we need more blood for blood I sort of dig this stuff because it's "hard" and "political," but I disagree about Rob being articulate. The lyrics are just as cliched as the music and far more stilted. Still, fun album, but not exactly thought-provoking. rob was in sinners and saints, not the other way around. saints and sinners were like some buddy band of the souls, right? whatever. just a correction. I'd totally kill...hmmm...Is the pope a celebrity? "i think this guy is annoying. he writes about the stupidest shit. who cares about a black ops mission from 1992 where the only 3 people who knew about it died and they killed a child by accident? oooo. what's the point in talking about that shit. this guy acts like he's making a difference exposing the most unuseful knowledge. all he's doing is arming idiot hardcore kids with 'facts' that make them about as educated as a michael moore fanatic." im with conduit One of the best records of 2005, and arguably the best hardcore record of 2005. i know rob did everything on the ep, i thought he used the touring band to record the full length though. interesting touring band by the way, half of cold as life and rob moved here to detroit to be closer to the rest of the guys in the band. Worst fucking live band I've ever seen. Holy shit this band is bad. And I like some "steakhead hardcore". Im pretty sure these guys are from my hometown, the one photo showed a dude from the band with a Mud hen hat on. Thirded on the Paris Hilton. -Paris hilton..hands down. Nothing would please me more than to kill her with a fucking hammer. Pretty cool album. You'll have to keep an ironic distance to it in order to enjoy it, but once you do that, this is nice shit. I liked the EP better, though. And Blood for Blood. If you guys had the opportunity to kill ONE celebrity, who would it be? propagandhi is 8 trillion times better. i think this guy is annoying. he writes about the stupidest shit. who cares about a black ops mission from 1992 where the only 3 people who knew about it died and they killed a child by accident? oooo. what's the point in talking about that shit. this guy acts like he's making a difference exposing the most unuseful knowledge. all he's doing is arming idiot hardcore kids with 'facts' that make them about as educated as a michael moore fanatic. this shit is just stupid |
