To be honest, I didn't use the Tooth & Nail Blindside cd to review this album. I used the Day Glo Blindside album (Day Glo is Blindside's European record company) because they were playing in my neighbourhood and I wanted to get a signed copy of their album. On the T&N album are 4 songs more than on the Day Glo version, but Day Glo put the "missing songs" on an EP called "Empty Box" and put one extra song on it too. Well, let's talk about the music ! Blindside makes very cool hardcore, a combination of Korn, Downset and other hardcore bands (I think the song "Nerve" even looks like Blenderhead). Singer Christian Lindskog uses his voice in several ways. He cries out loud in some songs, in other songs he kinda just "tells" us his lyrics (he just speaks 'em out, he doesn't sing or yell). I just love the restrained anger he has in his voice in some songs ("Superman"), as if he doesn't want to show his anger...
One of my favorite songs on the album is "Sidewinder" (also featured on T&N's 4th Anniversary Box Set. It's a shame Blindside doesn't play this song anymore! Guitar player Simon Grenehed told me that they don't like this song anymore... :-( Speaking of the guitar player, this guy really knows how to play awesome riffs!
All together this is a very good band playing for the fun of it and telling people about the one true God as well. A song which really hit me during their show was a song in Swedish which was, as they said, "covered from the Bible". I couldn't understand the words (except from some "halleluja's") but the song is really cool. It's the bonus song on the album and it's called "Lova Herren", which means "Praise the Lord" (I think, because it looks a little like the Dutch sentence "Loof de Heer", which means "praise the Lord"). And that's a great thing to do!
O yeah, the songs on the EP, of which at least 4 of them are on the T&N version of the Blindside album, ar called (in the right order) "Empty Box", "Born", "Replay", "Teddybear" and "Daughter" (differens a little from the song "Daughter" on the full length). The front cover of the EP looks like this:
Martijn