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Enough Enough
This Side You've Never Seen This Side You've Never Seen
South-Texas. Five guys. Rock music.Band/artist history
If I’ve set my watch correctly and precisely calculated the earth’s distance from the sun, 2003 looks to be the year of .thedecember drive. The post-punk/hardcore band from Weslaco, Texas is about to release their debut album, hands like guns and crashing sounds, on American Jealousy Records in the summer of 2003.
“someday I'd like to forget my way home”
Hands like guns and crashing sounds is a raw, powerful and strikingly beautiful piece of music, vibrant and youthful, and at the same time mature and focused. Guitars chime, ripple and soar creating gray walls of pure chaos in "Set and Forgotten". Voices dip into gentle whispers on the delicate and beautiful "This Side You’ve Never Seen". Drums and bass pound and crash with complete abandon during the album's final battle cry: "1426". While stylistic lines are crossed and toyed with from song to song, the listener never doubts for a moment that what they're listening to is .thedecember drive. It's not the kind of debut album you'd expect from four young men not yet old enough to drink. The album screams out as if it's holding on for dear life and must reveal itself to the world before sinking into the abyss. Hands like guns and crashing sounds questions life, death, family and God, not your typical indie-rock fare. Of "NOremembering", singer David Cortez explains “[it] was written at the time there were a lot of things in my life that I regretted, and I wanted to blame God for a lot of it.” The song is about being “woken up from that illusion.” Hands like guns and crashing sounds is a deep and poignant work from start to finish. .thedecember drive will be on the road soon in support of the album.
“just breathejust breathe”
Since their formation in 2001 .thedecember drive have built an increasingly large fan base both in the United States and abroad. They have released two independent EPs and have appeared on a nationally released split cd entitled: A House Divided (Break Even Records). In the summer of 2001 while on their first independent tour the band was involved in a serious car accident, not only cutting short the tour but also seriously injuring Cortez. Echoes from this traumatic event can still be heard in the band's music. The Great Awakening is the musical retelling of the events that led up to and the confusion that followed the accident. Returning home they wasted almost no time and soon resumed writing, recording and playing shows around their native south Texas. A december drive live show is a sight to be seen. They are usually characterized by schizophrenic flailing of bodies and equipment. Each band member lost in his own tumultuous whirlwind. Somehow spinning out of control and at the same time maintaining perfect synchronicity with one another. Fans in attendance stand in awe at the wall of sound and energy emitted by the four erratic musicians. In late 2002 they began recording their debut album and signed to American Jealousy Records. What's next? “We've already written our follow up EP and most of our next full-length" Vela said. "You'll be hearing a lot from us in the future.
” someday I'd like to forget my way home...”
Art Silva
Edited 11/19/03Have you performed in front of an audience?Yes. All over. Very much. All the time. Thanks.
Your musical influences
Radiohead The Gloria Record Trent Steel Cursive Epicure Pedro the LionWhat equipment do you use?
Gibson,Fender,Pearl,Zildian,Mesa Boogie,Crate,Ampeg,Pro Mark. Sponsor us. Ad space available.Anything else?
I honestly can't think of a thing.Contact
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Comments (9)
You guys sound real good. Nice vocals.
Hey there. I really love "Enough" and I'm sure i'll love the next one too. Good songwriting and I really like the vocals. I really like the arranagement. Great job! Keep up the great work and I wish you all the best. Keep the music alive and the love for it real.
-LeAnna Mosley
"I am in the world only for the purpose of composing" - Franz Schubert
"Success is going from failure to failure without the loss of enthusiasm" - Winston Churchill
"It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world" - William Cobbett
"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature."-Cicero
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. "-Eugene Delacroix
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound 1
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Really all it is healthy. I listen and enjoy. Though itself such I do not write. Call on!!! At me absolutely fresh tracks. Good luck!!!
nice work, i like it
Well.. here is my cliché.. "awesome stuff guys"... But seriously i really like it!!
