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Posted by: admin | 07/10/2007 at 14:49
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[Punknews.org]
The dedication and drive of Bad Religion, a legendary band now 27-years-old, is unmatched in nearly all of rock music. While many veteran acts are content to wallow in their glory days, rehashing tired sounds and playing the same predictable crowd-pleasers to naive fans, Bad Religion continues to challenge themselves, revamping and redefining their sound without straying into the unknown. New Maps of Hell is a perfect example, and amazingly, some of the band's finest work yet.
[Aversion]
Although Bad Religion makes an admirable attempt at calling up the inspiration one more time, New Maps of Hell is little more than another reason for the band to keep touring, keep promoting its back catalog and keep on the radar, but the realities of mathematics are catching up with Bad Religion: There are only so many permutations and combinations of its sound it can muster, and after nearly 200 songs and 14 albums, New Maps of Hell shows it's ever-so-naive to expect Bad Religion to do anything more than play to its legacy at this point.
[The Daily Texan Online]
At least Bad Religion's been ahead of the curve: Just as Reagan made it popular to hang Presidential portraits above mantles, these guys were right there hating on Uncle Ronnie. Since 1980, they've been immeasurably valuable to the hardcore community - guitarist Brett Gurewitz started Epitaph Records, the punk equivalent to Stax ?- and they didn't drop a major label debut until '93's Recipe for Hate. They command respect and, more importantly, several listens out of respect every time new material is dropped.
New Maps of Evil, their 15th studio album, is pretty much awesome across the board.
[The Sun (UK)]
Rating ****
This is their 14th album in a journey that?s seen members start influential record labels and become college professors ? but time hasn?t eroded any of their passion.
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That this band are still socially aware and still making records and playing shows that have kids punching the air with furious joy is brilliant.
Long live the kings.
Thanks to Batman! for this news!
The dedication and drive of Bad Religion, a legendary band now 27-years-old, is unmatched in nearly all of rock music. While many veteran acts are content to wallow in their glory days, rehashing tired sounds and playing the same predictable crowd-pleasers to naive fans, Bad Religion continues to challenge themselves, revamping and redefining their sound without straying into the unknown. New Maps of Hell is a perfect example, and amazingly, some of the band's finest work yet.
[Aversion]
Although Bad Religion makes an admirable attempt at calling up the inspiration one more time, New Maps of Hell is little more than another reason for the band to keep touring, keep promoting its back catalog and keep on the radar, but the realities of mathematics are catching up with Bad Religion: There are only so many permutations and combinations of its sound it can muster, and after nearly 200 songs and 14 albums, New Maps of Hell shows it's ever-so-naive to expect Bad Religion to do anything more than play to its legacy at this point.
[The Daily Texan Online]
At least Bad Religion's been ahead of the curve: Just as Reagan made it popular to hang Presidential portraits above mantles, these guys were right there hating on Uncle Ronnie. Since 1980, they've been immeasurably valuable to the hardcore community - guitarist Brett Gurewitz started Epitaph Records, the punk equivalent to Stax ?- and they didn't drop a major label debut until '93's Recipe for Hate. They command respect and, more importantly, several listens out of respect every time new material is dropped.
New Maps of Evil, their 15th studio album, is pretty much awesome across the board.
[The Sun (UK)]
Rating ****
This is their 14th album in a journey that?s seen members start influential record labels and become college professors ? but time hasn?t eroded any of their passion.
[...]
That this band are still socially aware and still making records and playing shows that have kids punching the air with furious joy is brilliant.
Long live the kings.
Thanks to Batman! for this news!
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07/11/2007 at 17:41
Comments by Tuesg from United Kingdom on 2007-07-10 @ 18:48
Comments by the anechoic nebula from Global Citizen on 2007-07-10 @ 18:24 It's good to see a British newspaper writing about Bad Religion cos no-one's heard of them over hear, but The Sun is pretty shit. When Empire came out they were on the covers of all the "rock" music mags Kerrang, NME and other stuff Maybe so, but they're not likely to appear on Jonathan Ross whereas in America they've appeared on Letterman. |
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07/11/2007 at 05:20
I'd imagine a BR double album being titled one of the following:
+ Beyond Heaven & Hell [heaven/hell disc 1/disc 2;] + Grains of Wrath [would go nicley with Against The Grain as a title] +Fields Of Mars [an inside wink to a previous album, plus it sounds epic] |
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07/11/2007 at 05:03
maybe that's a reference to the mysterious "double album" we ruminated about previously. lol.
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07/11/2007 at 05:02
new maps of evil... 15th album. yuk yuk yuk.
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07/10/2007 at 23:13
I didn't laugh..
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07/10/2007 at 22:33
Want a good laugh? (2/5):
sputnikmusic.com/ album.php? reviewid=12519 |
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07/10/2007 at 18:48
Comments by the anechoic nebula from Global Citizen on 2007-07-10 @ 18:24
It's good to see a British newspaper writing about Bad Religion cos no-one's heard of them over hear, but The Sun is pretty shit. When Empire came out they were on the covers of all the "rock" music mags Kerrang, NME and other stuff |
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07/10/2007 at 18:24
It's good to see a British newspaper writing about Bad Religion cos no-one's heard of them over hear, but The Sun is pretty shit.
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07/10/2007 at 16:49
I Think is their 14th album and the album is called new maps of hell instead of new maps of evil......., daily texan must look for more info
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07/10/2007 at 16:05
Gah that last comment sounds like i'm drunk or writing or the sun tee-hee. Stupid wireless keyboard failing
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07/10/2007 at 16:04
Its a trash paper the kind of ting Dr Doom would use as his toilet paper if that to make is evil toilet just that more evil
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07/10/2007 at 15:59
Haha, sounds like somebody's bitter... :P
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07/10/2007 at 15:54
The Sun reviewed New Maps Of Hell? I'm surprised there idiot journalists could understand the big words like "Maps"
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07/10/2007 at 15:49
I was just in a good mood this morning and it sounded worse than it does after my coffee now that i read it. Me won't hesitate next time :D.
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07/10/2007 at 15:30
Yeah, but it's not exactly 'post the positive things about BR only', is it? ;) And amidst all the other glowing reviews, it's not that bad.
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07/10/2007 at 15:28
I was thinking about posting the Aversion review but I didn't like how negative it was :\.
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07/10/2007 at 15:08
I love seeing how well the album is being received. I"m on my way to pick it up now!
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