CD Review: Killing Time – Three Steps Back
February 11th, 2010 Filed under: Reviews - Music by admin
CD Review – Killing Time
Three Steps Back
Dead City Records
The New York Hardcore legends, Killing Time have finally unleashed their first studio effort in over ten years upon the hardcore masses. With this new release, one is reminded just why it is that they have the reputation of influencing musical greats such as Hatebreed, Madball, and Rancid, only to name a small few. The band might have gone by the wayside, not having written any new material since 1996′s, The Method, and certainly not anything that came to more than a small boil since the bands first release in 1989 Brightside.
However, now with the release of Three Steps Back, Killing Time is here again and possibly this time to stay. In 2006 the guys began playing more live shows as well as going on a brief tour in Asia in 2007. After the tour they most undoubtedly decided to get back to the basics and back to writing. Possibly hoping to bring back the nostalgia of their now classic release Brightside, or just to show the new brigade that they wouldn’t go down without a fight, the band returned to their original practice garage (where they wrote and practiced Brightside) to hammer out the twelve song album entitled Three Steps Back.
The first song on this album, “Flight Plan” is a quick reminder of how hardcore began; hard hitting, with a powerful vengeance that is going to kick your ass if you don’t start moving. It is pure raw energy, to the point, aggressive, gritty, and unrelenting. You aren’t really sure if you are listening to hardcore music with the old school punk and metal interwoven into the various songs, but that maybe exactly what the guys had in mind when making this album. The music takes you back to the early days of hardcore, where it began and where it was a sin to stand there with your arms crossed and pretend to “enjoy the music”.
This album will remind you of what it was like to actually live and breathe the music of New York Hardcore. Enjoy it! Don’t use this album as a coaster. Take it off the shelf and play it loud and more than once. It grows on you quickly! Three Steps Back is here to prove that once again hardcore is defined and it is Killing Time!
By Karla McLeod
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