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INTERVIEWS coming soon! - - - - - - - - - NEW REVIEWS, MORE COMING SOON - Contribute album/live reviews! *The Deal *P.O.D. *In Due Time *Demon Hunter FEATURED REVIEW SOLO MONO the dead shall rise 1. New Jersey Basements 2. The Waste Disorder 3. Louder Than God 4. The End 5. A Dedication 6. Sleep In Safety Band: Solo Mono CD: The Dead Shall Rise Screams, roars, caring words, and a melodic, pounding force. Solo Mono is rising to the calls for a significant heavy band with enough popular appeal to make people want to get off of their butts and do it themselves. After witnessing some of the most worthwhile local shows in central Illinois, many have awaited the release of Solo Mono's 6 song EP, "The Dead Shall Rise". I am here to tell you that it does not disappoint. Tracks 2-5 best embody the Solo Mono sound. The more radio-friendly "New Jersey Basements" and the relatively relaxed "Sleep In Safety" work respectively to open and close the EP, and are great songs in themselves, but we will focus on the core. "Louder Than God" is the charging 55 second anthem that tells it like it is. You will replay it over and over, convincing yourself that it could be its own album. Verse 1 of "The End" begins: "here passes one more day you've derailed the train that brought (you here) yet continue to push onward at the expense of the sincere". This song changes unexpectedly throughout, and you won't know when it will cease to morph. "A Dedication" is chicken soup for the ambitiously faithful soul, speaking of "the wisdom not to give up on a flawed world" and "a number on your arm - a back covered with scars"... It may just bring tears to your eyes as you try to scream along. And I suggest that you do. REVIEW .TXT FILE LIBRARY *a global threat *afi *solips *roy g. biv *defiance *the unseen *millencolin *the arrivals *the motion *the reputation *cheese & crackwhores *silverstein *darkest hour *duran duran *satanic surfers *ministry *otep *blue meanies *Lesser Lights *Unwritten Law *The Feud *The Blood Brothers *Rescue / Grayson *Bluebird *James Frey *Melt-Banana *Lisboa / Kid Brother Collective *Racebannon / Song of Zarathustra *The Skeletons *Snowglobe *Time Spent Driving *First Night On Earth *Super Chinchilla Rescue Mission & The Tim Version *Aloha *The Slats *Lone Pigeon *Che: Chapter 127 *Tiara *The Exit *pitchblack more soon! COPYRIGHT (c) 2002-2004 PhoenixHeart Productions. TradeMark TM 2002-2004 PhoenixHeart Productions All features, editorials, reviews, interviews, comic strips, and other writings are the property of their respective writers and are used with permission.

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