For Fans Of: Rise Against, Evergreen Terrace, A Day To Remember.
Adelaide Independent Record Label Pee Records has helped release some of the best local music Australia has in the last year. They include Driven Fear’s ‘Society’s Finest’, Promise’s ‘Hopeless Sons’, Safe Hands’ ‘Oh The Humanity’, and now One Vital Word’s ‘Early Days’. This is the Newcastle bands second effort and an EP that will leave punk hardcore fans begging for more.
‘Early Days’ contains five songs; each song captures the different sides and influences of One Vital Word. The band take the in your face aggressive side of Evergreen Terrace, mix it with punk attitude of Rise Against and add the heavy and catchy sides of A Day To Remember. The first track, which happens to also be the title track, ‘Early Days’, is the song that includes all that is One Vital Word and the perfect ambassador for the EP. Even whilst in the midst of bumper-to-bumper traffic in the middle of a heatwave, you will not be able to stop your hands banging the steering wheel and singing along. Fast forward to the last song ‘Bury It’, and it is easy to think that you are listening to one of America’s biggest heavy bands right now, that being A Day To Remember. Placing a band into a genre these days is a task that brings along with it a massive headache. One Vital Word have the music to play side by side with almost any band that fits into the sub-genres of punk, metal and hardcore. But if you were made to choose the genre they should be placed into, then it’s impossible to not select the punk genre.
One Vital Word are a punk band from Newcastle who have delivered us with their second effort, ‘Early Days’, and have immediately placed themselves amongst Australia’s top punk, metal and hardcore bands. If only a 5 song EP creates this much enjoyment and excitement, can you imagine what a full-length album would do?
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