Over My Dead Body
“Sink or Swim”
(Indecision Records)
Over My Dead Body is the new parental hardcore figure. They follow each songs’ lyrics with a note to the listener about the song. Some of these affirmations are about questioning the world we live in, loving your friends, committing to the straight edge lifestyle and complaining about day jobs at the water cooler. This could be the great grandchild of Minor Threat. Ian MacKaye would be proud to see the hardcore-punk-straight edge legacy he started continuing on in such force with Over My Dead Body.
The music is solid with steady drums forming a foundation under crunching guitars, a roaring bass and an intelligible singer. Every song has a purpose and if you don’t get it from the song, you can figure it out from the note under the lyrics. This is the band that hardcore needs. You can still buy Minor Threat albums, but Over My Dead Body will bring all the old ideals to the forefront at their live shows. Over My Dead Body sings about not letting the hardcore movement die, but with these five guys leading a charge against its death, they don’t have anything too worry about.
