Review by Jake Masters
This album is aptly titled because after your first listen you’ll say to yourself, “Hot Damn! Every Time I Die is great!”
All stupid jokes aside, this is a really good album full of cryptic lyrics, a duel guitar attack, and stop-on-a-dime tempo changes. Singer Keith Buckley screams so that almost every word can be understood. This brutally convoluted poetry is complete with lines like I got this new black eye just for you-your hopeless romantic now helplessly rheumatic on "Romeo A Go-Go." Not to mention my favorite line from "Off Broadway," Tonight we dance! For tomorrow they release the dogs!
Most of Hot Damn’s ten tracks have a faster, punk-hardcore feel. However, halfway through the album "In the Event that Everything Should Go Terribly Wrong" drops in pace for a Deftones-like melodic dirge with haunting vocals (and should also win an award for longest song title ever).
This is a great album and if you like punk, hardcore, or metal (or everything in between) you should definitely check this one out.
Check out Every Time I Die on tour this summer with Ozzfest 2004 and in the fall with Dillinger Escape Plan.