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Album Review
by SashaS
30-6-2005
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More on: A Life Once Lost
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A Life Once Lost: 'Hunter'
(Ferret/Roadrunner)
A Life Once Lost: hunter’s dying little every day
Summer comes and the major labels go into dormant mode, waiting for the Autumn to kick in and start realising hope-for-Chrimbo-sellers. And, in meantime on the mainstream level - what do we have to do but… listen to Coldplay?! Please, not everyone loves such crass soft-rockin’…
Thank God for independent releases that bring variety to warm days and keep reviewers happily busy. A Life Once Lost’s second album provides some good excuses for getting that neck and head outta shape, the air-guitar completely smashed and your adrenaline running as high as if you had just completed a Marathon.
The effect is achieved in only 36 minutes that are red-hot from in-to-out buttons. ‘Rehashed’ surges in like a rabid rhino in a CD shop, only to be restrained a tad on ‘Needelman’ before sonic explosion follows after explosion… Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe guests on vocals on ‘Vulture’.
A Life Once Lost is a Pennsylvanian outfit - Robert Meadows (vox), Robert Carpenter (gtr/kys), Nicholas Frasca (bass/vox), Douglas Sabolick (gtr) and Justin Graves (drums) - with the sophomore album taking the promise of debut ‘A Great Artist’ to a new level. Imagine Black Sabbath riffology with Cradle of Filth claustrophobia and demented vocals provided by Robert Meadows. It is a punch you can’t duck! [Not that you’d want to unless you dig Green Day!?]
“The whole idea behind ‘Hunter’,” Mr Meadows pinpoints his motivation, “is about going out and taking what it is that you want. It’s about not settling with going to school, having a job, having a family. It’s about not settling with someone else telling you you’re not good enough. It’s just about saying ‘f**k you’ and doing what you want to do. It’s about going out there and taking it.”
A Life Once Lost are due to tour UK from 05 to 14 August with Every Time I Die and Twelve Tribes. Miss them at your own peril.
8/10
SashaS
30-6-2005
A Life Once Lost album ‘Hunter’ is released 27 June 2005 by Ferret/Roadrunner
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