Over My Dead Body - No Runners - 7

Labels: Indecision
Review by: Andy Malcolm

What the fuck? This is like straight edge hardcore. What am I doing with a straight edge hardcore record? Sometimes I understand why I haven’t cleared my overdraft yet – it’s because I buy records for no reason. Why on earth do I have this record? Fuckin’ weird.

Anyway, as luck would have it, this is actually really good. I could dig these guys live, totally. They remind me a lot of UK hardcore kings, Imbalance, with a touch of Minor Threat, and probably a whole bunch of Rev bands that I never got into. So, in a nutshell, OMDB utilise snarly lead vocals and the stereotypical gang backups, whilst playing catchy hardcore that contains zero percent metal, and zero percent indie rock. Straight up! No messin’!

“œBe There” is reminiscent of Kid Dynamite, with strong melodies and a lot of rock, though the most cheezy friendship / “œour scene rocks” type lyrics. In fact, OMDB are cheeze-meisters when it comes to lyrics, there is a track called “œDrug Free Adult” for god sakes. Well, maybe they are just having some fun, as all these guys are probably super old (for HC kids) as they are ex-Unbroken and Four Walls Falling. Veterans eh!

What else? Oh, the do a “œthe Faith” cover, and have lots of SXE cartoons on their artwork. These actually look really cool. Best song is the last one, “œNo Borders, No Barriers” which totally goes off – I could easily point my fingers to this in the pit. It’s a total Minor Threat rip off stylewise, with the dude shouting “œDon’t you fucking get it?” and “œSo what the fuck have you done?” every now and again. It also has a bunch of Dag Nasty style melodies. Very, very cool.

Rather retro, but really good if you like this sort of stuff. I personally could never own that many records that sound like this, but hey, I can’t deny that this is done really well. Check it out if you’re into Kid Dynamite and Imbalance, or just SXE hardcore done properly.