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1 Binge/Purge Death By Stereo 2:34
2 I Give My Life Death By Stereo 3:22
3 Forget Regret Death By Stereo 4:03
4 Entombed We Collide Renk/Death By Stere 3:41
5 Forever and a Day Death By Stereo 5:04
6 This Curse of Days Death By Stereo 3:39
7 Middle Fingers Death By Stereo 3:41
8 Nosotros Controlamos Todo Death By Stereo 3:21
9 W.W.J.D.? Death By Stereo 3:20
10 Don't Piss on My Neck and Tell Me It's Raining Death By Stereo 3:08
11 This Is Not the End Death By Stereo 4:24
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Death for Life

Audio Compact Disc

Label: Epitaph

Style: Hardcore Punk

Death for Life

UPC: 045778675425

Release Date: 06/07/2005

Original Release Date: 06/07/2005

Number of Discs: 1

Tracks: [Binge/Purge, I Give My Life, Forget Regret, Entombed We Collide, Forever and a Day, This Curse of Days, Middle Fingers, Nosotros Controlamos Todo, W.W.J.D.?, Don't Piss on My Neck and Tell Me It's Raining, This Is Not the End]
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Johnny Loftus

On Death for Life, Death By Stereo continue to fuel their hardcore-derived stutter with the tenets of metal and thrash. Vocalist Efrem Shulz channels hardcore's urgency on "I Give My Life" and "Forget Regret," but the songs also feature stinging guitar solos right out of the heavy metal handbook, and the latter is close to early Faith No More. Even with all of this, as well as Shulz's always overdone vocals, Death for Life is more streamlined than a lot of metalcore records. It's like there needs to be a surplus of manic creativity to get that specialized designation, to the point that songs are a little too crammed with their own ambition. Death By Stereo take the opposite approach. They always incorporate their usual morbidity, metal, and hardcore bite. But they also keep the equation hovering -- like a skull perched on a torch -- for a unique kind of intensity. "This Curse of Days" puts a foreboding backing chorus behind its lyrics about winter bringing death for a subtle nod to European metal; "Middle Fingers" wavers between an agonizing distortion crawl and explosive choruses ("You're gonna die/We're here to stay" is its message); and "Don't Piss on My Neck and Tell Me It's Raining" fulfills the band's quota for acerbic song titles. "W.W.J.D.?" is probably the closest Death for Life gets to classicist hardcore -- it's a hectic Bad Religion-style rocker about the futility of religion in modern society. Death By Stereo can get mired in its own sour grapes. But its feral cross of hardcore and metal influences lives on with passion and volume. ~ Johnny Loftus, Rovi