Customer Reviews

Viva Death

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this is kind of a refreshing turn that trever and scott (from face to face) took. along with scott's brother, chris schifflet (formally of no use for a name and me first and the gimmee gimmees and now of the foo fighters). songs are tight and who would've know that the pop/skate punk trio face to face could have spawned such an aggressive band. at first listen the cd reminds me of fugazi with it's noisey guitars and catchy choruses. maybe even a little stiff little fingers. very well played and written. sometimes the vocals are buried in the mix but, aside of some production shortcomings the band has thankfully steered clear of the mainstream and produced something credible to the punk rock community.

this cd is real good it is a lot different from face to face which a good change, they show a little more talent
fundamentalist , blood and oranges and trust me are the best songs

I am first off a huge face to face fan. However, i didnt expect f2f sound in this record. This record is like a journey and never gets boring, it just stretches your mind to its musical boundaries. It very very original. I myself do no listen to anything else that might be remotely close...however i dig this record. I reccomend you pick it up and give it a listen if your open minded and dig metal, rock, punk etc

I heard of Viva Death because I'm a big fan of Face to Face. I heard their two downloadable songs on the Vagrant website (Fundamentalist and Blood and Oranges) and liked them. Then I heard another song called Trust Me and thought it was OK, not as good as the other two. So just recently I decided to finally buy the CD. To my disappointment, those three songs I had heard just happened to be the only good ones! Or at the time I thought so...

Although I'm still disappointed with the album, I've started liking a few more. Safety is Our Primary Concern is, in my opinion, one of the best on the CD. I've been listening to it a lot. Blood and Oranges is the stand-out song, though. I bought this CD thinking most of the songs would be like it. But to my surprise, most of the songs are slow and not hard. It seems like they don't have a chorus and are just the same things the whole way through.

As I was listening to the CD, I found myself always hoping the next song would be better than the current one. I read in several places that Rigor Mortis Shake was one of the better songs on the CD. So I was excited about hearing that one, but was disgusted at it's utter stupidity. I'm not sure what to make of this song. I don't think it was written by Viva Death, and I'm not sure why they bothered playing it. Maybe it's a favorite of one of the band member's.

Best songs on the CD in order of favorite to least favorite:

Blood and Oranges
Safety is Our Primary Concern
Fundamentalist

Proffessionals
Trust Me

It's not a bad CD. Lot's of people really like it, but a lot of it really isn't my kind of music. It was just disappointing.