Between the Never and the Now [ENHANCED] [IMPORT]

Vendetta Red

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 17, 2003)
• Original Release Date: June 24, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Import
• Label: Sony/Epic
• ASIN: B00008XUT2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (62 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #494,925 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
If a record company devised a formula for the all-encompassing rock album, the result would probably sound something like Between the Never and the Now. Wide-eyed emo sensitivity, nu-metal chug, old-metal screaming, skate-punk sing-alongs, Goth-rock doom, and grunge gloom coalesce in the Seattle five-piece's appealing debut. For the most part, the mish-mash works surprisingly well, thanks to the extra anguish, circular guitars, and operatic vocals. "Stay Home" and "Lipstick Tourniquet" wallows in manic grandeur and the jaunty slacker chorus of "Opiate Summer" contrasts appealingly with the demonic verses. The pieces don't always fit: "PS Love the Black" is a mind-numbing nightmare of styles that lumbers along like Frankenstein's monster. That said, when singer Zack Davidson bellows "You're the champion of my bleeding heart" as "There Only Is" crescendos, the formula is hard to knock. --Dan Gennoe

Product Description
Vendetta Red are a truly dynamic quintet hailing from Seattle and their 2003 album is an off the hook collision of alt-rock punk and something altogether frenetic and will see them emerge as one of the best new bands of 2003. Vendetta Red are the missing link between emo-catharsis and the stadium intensity of the Who. Epic.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Dissapointed once again, October 8, 2003

By	"nukemall" (Hut Hut, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Between the Never and the Now (Audio CD)

Why only two? Because of the incoherent screaming placed unstrategically where it just isn't mean to go. But on the plus side, not every song on this album has screaming, therefore not every song sucks. I liked "There Only Is" until the middle 15 seconds of screaming, then I was laughing my ass off again. Good lyrics, good music, even good singing. I think these "emo" bands should be engineering their songs to allow the screaming to either;

A. Make sense in the placement within the song (Or ask yourselves, "Does it make sense to scream at this point? Or are we screaming just for the sake of trying to identify with teen angst?"
B. Why are we screaming? Don't have a great song running along the tracks and all of a sudden put a H-bomb where ever you like.

In other words, try crafting your song to make sense.

Shatterday was a great example of that. Perfect anthem song. I'm going to keep my ears on this band. Potential for stronger albums in the future.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I'm getting deja vu., August 1, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Between the Never and the Now (Audio CD)

Well, let me star off by saying I've been a long time fan of both Vendetta Red and the members' other previous bands. This album was a let down for me. ALL of the songs are from previous albums, and some are even from previous bands; this is at LEAST the fifth release of "Por Vida." Also, most of the tunes are a lot more poppy and a lot less powerful - I never thought screaming could be such a poppy thing. For example, "Lipstick Tourniquets" has a much less effective and simpler bassline than before, Zach sings the verses an octave up from other recordings (which makes it sound poppy), and the screaming just seems much more commercialized as far as placement. The ONLY song on this album I was slightly happy with was "P.S. Love the Black," because the second chorus has this screaming thing that was only in the first version released in '98 (I think) and a few other cool things were added / changed back.

So, overall, if you've been a long time fan you might be let down. However, all of the songs on here are (or at least were) solid, and I still think they are a great band. Hopefully next album will show that a bit more, have NEW tunes, and be recorded a bit better (ouch, that bass is weak).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Awesome Band that can only get Better, October 13, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Between the Never and the Now (Audio CD)

Do not be fooled by Shatterday.

In my opinion that is the worst song on the album. But when I listened to this cd the first time around, I believed it to be the best. It took me a full three cd listens before I even started to like them. "There Only Is" was the song that struck me first (and is also the first on the cd). This great cd might not knock you off your socks the first time around, but if you stick with it, it will become your favorite cd, as it is mine!