Album Review
Death Before Dishonor - Better Ways To DieDeath Before Dishonor – Better Ways To Die

I remember reviewing an EP by Death Before Dishonor a few years ago called ‘Friends, Family, Forever’ and I really wasn’t impressed with it as it just sounded like the same old hardcore music that you have heard many times before but from bands who are at the top of their game in the scene such as Hatebreed and Blood For Blood.

Well Death Before Dishonor are now back with their third studio album ‘Better Ways To Die’ and I have to say that the album is a big improvement on the EP they released a couple of years ago, the album features 11 tracks and runs for 24 minutes which means that each track runs for just over two minutes on average which is just about the right amount of time for a band that creates brutal sounding hardcore songs.

Before you give ‘Better Ways To Die’ a listen I would advise you to get a couple of headache tablets at the ready as the album is proper heavy and brutal sounding and will either leave you having a headache just from the sheer brutal sound of the album or you will be left with a headache after accidentally smashing your head against your bedroom wall after going nuts bouncing of the walls doing your best scream impression alongside the vocals of front man Bryan.

The album starts off with a song called ‘Peace And Quiet’ and the song is quite the opposite, it starts off with a massive thrash metal style guitar riffs, something that wouldn’t be to out of place on a Children Of Bodom album, and then suddenly Bryan’s vocals come in charging at you at a force of 1000 Miles Per Hour, the song only runs for 1minute and 15 seconds but it leaves a massive impact and lets you know that Death Before Dishonor are not fucking about this time and that they are here to make a massive impact on anything that gets in their way and anyone that decides to listen to them.

‘Remember’ starts off very odd for a hardcore song, with a mid-tempo instrumental piece but within 20 seconds the song reaches it’s hardcore peak with massive aggressive sounding group vocals and an overall catchy instrumental groove which gives me the feeling that Death Before Dishonor have scrapped their orginal formula and gone for the experimental route this time around.

Songs like ‘Coffin Nail’, ‘Fuck This Year’ and the album title track ‘Better Ways To Die’ are Death Before Dishonor at their hardcore best; the songs are both fast and furious with really aggressive vocals and a power that should leave you feeling very battered and bruised.

‘Better Ways To Die’ is everything that ‘Friends, Family’ Forever’ wasn’t , the album is very experimental with Death Before Dishonor trying things different this time around but still maintaining their hardcore tag, vocalist Bryan Harris has gone up in my estimations with his vocals sounding so much better this time around and the overall instrumental work from the band is fantastic with moments that you would just not expect from an hardcore record, this is Death Before Dishonor at their best doing good things for the hardcore music scene.

4/5

Review by Trigger
 Band Members
Death Before Dishonour - Band
Bryan (Vocals)
B-Roll (Guitar)
Dan (Drums)
Frankie (Guitar)
Rob (Bass)
 Track Listing
1. Peace And Quiet
2. Remember
3. Coffin Nail
4. Fuck This Year
5. Boys In Blue
6. Better Ways To Die
7. So Far From Home
8. Black Cloud
9. No More Lies
10. Bloodlust
11. Our Glory Days
 Band Related Links
Death Before Dishonour Myspace
Death Before Dishonour Official Website
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?