(Note: This album was back then also released on vinyl as a 12'' LP via the german label "Dim Records".)
Okay, and again a review of a record that's not really that 'new' anymore. Released back then in 2006 through the own label of EMPIRE FALLS (at least I think so that "DEFIANT RECORDS" is/was/had been the same label like "PROPHECY RECORDS" and how it all was named anyhow in the future) and the guys of "DIM RECORDS" done also a vinyl 12'' LP release of it back then. It was a record that I somhow always wanted to have since it was released, hm, but somehow I always missed it until November 2010, since then I finally call it my own. Anyhow, hm, I don't know it all precisely what there is to know about the discography (and history) of EMPIRE FALLS, hm, but I think this is one (and the older one) of the currently last two (full length album) releases of EMPIRE FALLS. On the great "THE U.S. OF Oi! OF SWEDEN" blog (http://usofoiofsweden.blogspot.com/) you can find (for what I know and how it seems) a pretty complete discography of them posted (with downlaods and stuff like this). Okay, anyhow, back to the topic. EMPIRE FALLS, pretty much something like the same band as BETTER DEAD THAN RED (are also featured here on this very blog). I know EMPIRE FALLS(as a band) now for years and, to be honest, I always liked their early days as a damn good and hard hitting and hatefilled Hardcore band more than their newer days, pretty much they sound equal like BETTER DEAD THAN RED, ah, and one word: I usually don't give a damn about the talking about and defaming of persons that I don't know personally, but if the rumours are true that seem to become louder and louder this days that at least Bryan Scorch, the head of EMPIRE FALLS and BETTER DEAD THAN RED, is today heavily into NS and Hitlerism, into supporting B&H and C18 and this whole militant 14/88 WP/NS WPWW White Supremacy movement (with showcasing ISD tribute/memorial shirts the thought that all this rumours are or at lest could be damn true isn't so unbelievable) than beside the review of EMPIRE FALLS (for what I know newest) follow up record to this album here, called "INFAMOUS", will be pretty much nothing else or new will come when it comes to EMPIRE FALLS and BETTER DEAD THAN RED. Some borders aren't to be crossed, and bullshit subhuman lowlife thrash like B&H and C18 is one of this borders. So, okay, back and finally onwards to this record and its review. EMPIRE FALLS changed their style pretty much overall the long, long years of their existence, going from harsh and brutal, forceful 'old schoolish' Hardcore more and more into the Streetpunk and Oi! and then especially R.A.C. direction and latest with their "THE UNDERDOGS" album from 2003 you can say they were nothing else than a band like this from this time on. And this record here, "WE LIVE TO BE HATED", displays this very good. It's some hard and mostly in punishing mid pace delivered Streetrock between R.A.C., Oi! and Streetpunk (of the American Way of sound and style of it) and also a huge dose of White Thrash Redneck 'Punk'-Rock & Roll stuff (ANTISEEN and beyond), all dominated by dirty and pretty brutal, sometimes mad-trashing and mercyless groovin' heavy guitar work, the pretty violent and powerful and full vocals, and it's all backed up by the beefy and bulky work of the bass and the drums, sometimes some back ups that know to convince are also there. It's all good and fine, and if ya like BETTER DEAD THAN RED and always wanted them to be harder and more direct in the face, and if ya like especially "MARX WAS WRONG" from BETTER DEAD THAN RED then you will also like this one here. Yes, it's a solid release, but the problem with it is that it sounds all 'too well-known', I mean, even when you listen to it the first time you can't beat the feeling that you know it already now for years, nothing fresh, nothing exciting, nothing really grapping, they know to play and all this stuff, and so that's makin' it at the end of the day still a solid release, nah, but damn it nothing more. The only song that reaches a higher level is the fast and angry, bitter and pissed off "CHOOSE YOUR SIDE" with finally a strong Hardcore note to it again and some pretty nice and sick sounding lead, a great track, point and fact!!! Beside this song it's all basically some mix out of R.A.C. (like it was born and bred back then in England) and some (Street-) Punk and Oi! elements to it all done pretty guitar dominated with some pretty damn huge typical american White Thrash Redneck & Roll edge to it. Lyrically it's sometimes maybe a little bit controversial and right wing (yes, it is), hm, but basically we do get nothing else than songs about violence and about being an underdog, as well as songs against the scene (and the own fans... WTF?!?) and the music industry and society in general, hm, yehp, and more or less that's it all waht there is to say about the lyrics of EMPIRE FALLS (on this one here), ah, maybe just also that they also don't have the smartest lyrics around anyhow. Dirty and nice production sound, a pretty cool artwork, yes, that's all what there is to say about EMPIRE FALLS and "WE LIVE TO BE HATED". Maybe there will also come a review of their "INFAMOUS" album from 2007, I'm not so sure about it at all, time will tell. Okay, decide now what you're about to do with it, anyhow necessary it's definitely not, just some solid stuff. Don't know why the hell I was wanting this one here to have and call it my own for so many years now... Solid to midfield stuff, nothing else. (6 of 10 points)
(One last word to their MySpace site, today it displays a flyer of the "BLOOD & HONOUR UNITY MEETING 2010" where EMPIRE FALLS will play, as well as BETTER DEAD THAN RED, beside acts like xTOTAL WARx, MAX RESIST and WHITE KNUCKLE DRIVER, yes, so I think we don't need to discuss anything about EMPIRE FALLS and BETTER DEAD THAN RED anymore about being or having become nothing else than a bunch of lowlife subhuman NS WP 14/88 faggots and nothing else. Okay, maye it'S also just about the money, because that you can make some pretty impressive and good bucks especially in the American NS/WP Hate Rock shouldn't be a secret at all to anyone anymore, latest since "RESISTANCE RECORDS" and "PANZERFAUST RECORDS". But anyhow, no matter if politics or just 'mone-making-greed', that's not making any difference or anything better. Ah, and musically, like I've written above, they don't bring that much to the table at all that could ya make maybe look over it for a while, hm, so okay, I think ya know what I want to say with this words...)
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Bryan Russel, whatever political stance he might have, is a bloody rip off. I have ordered from him three times and EVERY three times he claims to have sent the goods, but as he never have a trackingnumber to show to, I get the money back from Paypal every time. DON'T TRUST HIM.
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