Never Kill the Boy on the First Date

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
WATERDOWN PLAY A FUSION OF EMOTIONAL, DRIVEN AND EXPLOSIVE ROCK WITH A HINT OF HARDCORE. INFLUENCES RANGE FROM BAD BRAINS, QUEEN AND BLACK SABBATH TO METALLICA, THE STOOGES AND DEPECHE MODE. THEIR MUSIC TEETERS BETWEEN HEAVY AND CHAOTIC, MELODIC AND STRUCTURED, BRAWNY YET INTIMATE. WATERDOWN REVERBERATES WITH AN UNDENIABLY CAPTIVATING AND COSMIC SOULFULNESS. THESE GUYS ARE POISED FOR GREATNESS.

Never Kill the Boy on the First Date
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • German Screamo starts with WATERDOWN
  • A pleasant surprise
  • German Emo-Core, gotta love it
  • Good major label debut
 Never Kill the Boy on the First Date
Waterdown
Manufacturer: Victory Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005IAFN
Release Date: 2001-05-08

Tracks:

  1. Impress Me
  2. From A Different Angle
  3. Round Two
  4. The One Thing
  5. Your Shadow
  6. Not Today
  7. June
  8. Lessons I Can't Learn
  9. Sometimes
  10. Corporate Identity
  11. Picketline
  12. Etikette Totet

Album Description

WATERDOWN PLAY A FUSION OF EMOTIONAL, DRIVEN AND EXPLOSIVE ROCK WITH A HINT OF HARDCORE. INFLUENCES RANGE FROM BAD BRAINS, QUEEN AND BLACK SABBATH TO METALLICA, THE STOOGES AND DEPECHE MODE. THEIR MUSIC TEETERS BETWEEN HEAVY AND CHAOTIC, MELODIC AND STRUCTURED, BRAWNY YET INTIMATE. WATERDOWN REVERBERATES WITH AN UNDENIABLY CAPTIVATING AND COSMIC SOULFULNESS. THESE GUYS ARE POISED FOR GREATNESS.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars German Screamo starts with WATERDOWN.......2003-02-18

yeah!, maybe this guys aren't that original if we compare them with their labelmates Thursday/Taking back sunday, etc. but if we compare them with european emo/Screamo hardcore bands, they are even the fathers of something they do not what it means.
When i first chacked this album, i was like, humm same stuff like atreyu, poison the well, mixed with finch, fairweather, even blindside and deftones a little bit. but i was checking the full album, and i realize how good musicians are they, the two-same-time melodic and scraming vocals at the verses of the songs blow my head off, plus their melodic chorus, all this mixed with a very special hardcore music that goes in the same mood as atreyu, with thursday, glassjaw...anyway, this cd is AWESOME, at least for me, it's simple, it's original, and it blow my head off! that's enaough for me to listen it, till my cd walkman batteries get dry!

4 out of 5 stars A pleasant surprise.......2003-02-10

I first heard this band on a Victory sampler, and for me they were far and away the best thing on there. The CD is surprisingly diverse, too much so to be lumped solely in the "emo" category. The band do use the sung versus screamed dual vocal attack at times, which is probably where the emo/Thursday comparisons comes from. There are however other influences at work, from glam to angular punk to straight up rock and roll.
A feature of this release is the fact that there is not a bad song on it, and it gets better as it goes along. "Corporate Identity" reminds me of At The Drive In at their best, "Picketline" is simply blistering, and the last song (sung I presume in their native German) takes the riff from the Stooges "Now I Wanna Be Your Dog" and gives it a fair throttling.
There is far more thought contained within the lyrics than you would expect, and the fact that they are German and as such not writing in their main language makes the songwriting quality all the more impressive. Give these guys a chance, you won't be disappointed. If they were from the US or the UK, they would already be huge. Hopefully after the release of their upcoming CD they will be.

3 out of 5 stars German Emo-Core, gotta love it.......2001-08-01

Wow. The Germans discovered some good music. This is a weird emo cd to say the least. Coming off sounding like a cross between, Thursday, In Flames, and The Deftones. Sometimes this strange mixture seems to work, sometimes it comes off as annoying. Lyrics are as intelligent as you could imagine on an emo disc. "impress me" is a very good song however!

4 out of 5 stars Good major label debut.......2001-07-07

Having heard Waterdown before and thought they were intresting, I thought I'd try em out. I wasn't let down. They play a brand of emotional hardcore with a popish twist. Can't compare them to anyone, although they do sound like Thursday. "Impress Me" and "Not Today" are melodic hardcore at it's finest. Pick up this cd today.

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