This is rock n’ roll to make you feel alive! This is rock n’ roll to give you a heart attack!
With their latest release, The Big Dirty, Every Time I Die has found the perfect balance of talent and wit. This band has it all, with catchy hooks, breakdowns, amusing lyrics and cowbell. Yes, cowbell, which is used in the intro for “We’rewolf,” the lead single off of The Big Dirty.
Every Time I Die is a five-piece band from New York who have been prominent players in the hardcore scene since they released their debut album Last Night in Town, and they will make you want bang your head and send you straight to the emergency room. The cause? Whiplash!
The Big Dirty is an album so brutal that it even comes with a caution sticker that reads “Caution: Listening to this record will make you awesome. Please avoid direct contact if you are not ready to rule.
“All jokes aside, even with “distasteful” lyrics that your parents would disapprove of like “I tied the devil to the tracks, and I tied the tracks in a lover’s knot around the finger of a beautiful girl/I’ll keep hell if hell will have me,” vocalist Keith Buckley’s lyrics can be analyzed alongside the most respectable writers in your English Lit class.
Southern Rock influences are evident in The Big Dirty, especially in “Rendez-voodoo,” which also showcases Buckley’s singing ability, proving that not every word that comes out of his mouth has to be screamed.
While most hardcore and metalcore bands today speak of various social issues, Every Time I Die just wants everyone to party and live life a little, so go call your friends, grab some beer, pop in The Big Dirty and trash your living room ’cause that’s the way rock n’ roll should be!