I Am the Avalanche [Explicit Lyrics]

1. DEAD AND GONE

2. NEW DISASTER

3. MURDEROUS

4. GREEN EYES

5. WASTED

6. THIS IS DUNGEON MUSIC

7. SYMPHONY

8. EMERGENCY

9. CLEAN UP

10. MY SECOND RESTRAINING ORDER

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

I AM THE AVALANCHE released their full-length debut September 27, 2005 on Drive-Thru Records. Produced by Barrett Jones (Foo Fighters, Melvins) the self-titled album resonates with Vinnie Caruana’s sometimes dark, but always clever lyrical musings accompanied by heavy, intoxicating guitars and drums. Caruana (former front-man of The Movielife) and crew rock and awe on tracks like "Dead And Gone" which plays like a musical investigation into the disappearance of love and the bloody and pulverizing "I Took A Beating" that humorously reflects on two really bad years. I AM THE AVALANCHE was selected as one of Alternative Press’ 100 Bands You Need To Know In 2005.

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I Am the Avalanche [Explicit Lyrics]

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The Early November/I Am the Avalanche
The Early November , and I Am the Avalanche
Manufacturer: Drive Thru
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000A2H5V0
Release Date: 2005-07-26

Tracks:

Outside [Demo Version] - The Early November
Ever So Sweet [Live] - The Early November
New Disaster - I Am the Avalanche
I Took a Beating [Acoustic] - I Am the Avalanche

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One of the best releases of 2005
An Amazing Album
Deceivingly inventive
What's Interesting about This?
amazing....emo/punk

I Am the Avalanche
I Am the Avalanche
Manufacturer: Drive Thru
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Punk Revival | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Punk-Pop | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000AP2Z08
Release Date: 2005-09-27

Tracks:

DEAD AND GONE
NEW DISASTER
MURDEROUS
GREEN EYES
WASTED
THIS IS DUNGEON MUSIC
SYMPHONY
EMERGENCY
CLEAN UP
MY SECOND RESTRAINING ORDER

Album Description

I AM THE AVALANCHE released their full-length debut September 27, 2005 on Drive-Thru Records. Produced by Barrett Jones (Foo Fighters, Melvins) the self-titled album resonates with Vinnie Caruana's sometimes dark, but always clever lyrical musings accompanied by heavy, intoxicating guitars and drums. Caruana (former front-man of The Movielife) and crew rock and awe on tracks like "Dead And Gone" which plays like a musical investigation into the disappearance of love and the bloody and pulverizing "I Took A Beating" that humorously reflects on two really bad years. I AM THE AVALANCHE was selected as one of Alternative Press' 100 Bands You Need To Know In 2005.

Customer Reviews:

One of the best releases of 2005.......2007-04-16

When The Movielife split, many adoring fans found themselves confused and bemused as to why one of the most under-rated acts on Drive Thru Records had gone and done something as silly as split. The thought even probably ran through front man Vinnie Caruana's mind too as he found himself working construction in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, two days after he'd been playing in front of 3000 kids.

Luckily for us both, Caruanas passion for music was long from dead. In fact, it simply needed a short hiatus from band life in order for him to truly realize he belongs on stage being arguably the best front man in pop-punk. When he finally decided to play again, he had plenty of material from which to draw and the end product was I Am The Avalanche, both the band itself, and their first debut album.

"Dead and Gone", the opening track a live favorite is a melodious ode to an old girlfriend of Caruana's, although thoughts of closure with the Movielife can't help but be considered. Catchy and gritty, undoubtedly a song full of both regret, and anger, but focusing on the future at the same time.

"Green Eyes" opens with quite a bizarre set of lyrics and gradually builds into a questionable musical assault on an ex girlfriend. "I knew she was from the West Coast, or the best coast as she said" - it's hardly Shakespeare, but this little sonnet has just as much charm.

Following that quite odd song, "I Took A Beating" should attract any Movielife fan. Loud, proud, heavy and ripened, this song tells the story of Caruana's 2003Undoubtedly one of the best tracks on the album.

"Symphony", another outstanding song yet again revolves around a simple yet catchy bass line. It's beefy, it's meaningful, and most importantly, it almost signifies what IATA are together as a band. A mix up of several different elements, coming together to make better than good.

"My Second Restraining Order", the last track closes the album perfectly, drawing influence without a doubt from every single other track on the CD, and probably most of what The Movielife did, its almost an ode to IATA, and a cliff-hanger of an ending. It leaves you wanting more, and if Caruana is anything to go by, more is what you'll be getting.

All in all, a brilliant debut, matured by Caruana's experiences. Combining the heavy with the melodious, and with the lyrical genius being the biggest compliment the utterly great songs could get, this album is worth fifty of it's weight in gold.

An Amazing Album.......2006-07-12

Sorry I couldn't think of anything cute for a headline - but that's what I really think I am the Avalanche's self titled - AMAZING!

I am the Queen of Exageration though, so you may want to check it out for yourself :)

I was a hater at first. I had been hoping for a Movielife reunion but when the members started joining new bands I started to face the facts. They were done. So I listened to the new bands. Nightmare of You. WOW. Awful. Sorry Brandon and all his loyal followers but if I wanted to listen to the Smiths - I would.

Then came June 2005. I had been keeping up with what Vinnie was doing on MySpace but wasn't really sure if he was touring or what. SO I go to see Head Automatica and who's opening!? None other than IATA. Very excited.

Not so much when they came out as a disaster (no pun intended) - again it could have been that I tryed not to listen. Again saw them at Warped 2005, and a little intoxicated, I may have screamed out some Movielife songs for requests. Still I was a hater.

Then this album came out and blew it all out of the water. My roomate got it and I would stick my tongue out whenever she played it. But after a few hundred listens I came to understand that this is one of the best albums that has come out in the past year!

There has been some doosies (from the label that signed the Movielife and ultimately IATA - Drive Thru) but I am really proud to say that this album stuck out in the midst of a bunch of really medicore and passion-less albums.

I listen to this album and as much I don't want to compare it to the movielife I have to for just a second. I listen to Vinnie's voice and remember the passion he (and I) had for the movielife.

I Am The Avalanche experiments with alot of different riffs and music types for this album and it's one reason why it's so electic. I listen to Murderous and I feel a little Sublime/Incubus feeling and then I listen to "I Took A Beating" and feel like I'm seeing a hardcore show.

The album slows past number 10 in my opinion (but don't most albums)and it's also where the lyrics fail (listen to "Emergency" and you'll know what I mean).

I fought with giving this album 4 stars - but it deserves 5 for sure. Even if the lyrics get questionable :)

Deceivingly inventive.......2006-02-09

So yes, I did like the Movielife, but I was not a huge fan because I felt like it was too similar to what I had already heard countless times before. What did intrigue me, though, was Vinnie Caruana's intense voice, a barrage of emotion and anger that deflected any of the "emo" labels that people love to pin on bands nowadays. The first time through Avalanche's self-titled, I couldn't help but sing along to Vinnie's driving melodies, but after a few more listens, I realized that he wasn't the only person in the band. The guitars pound away with the sort of rolling intensity that with Vinnie's voice, seem just at home. The drummer is not one to overlook either, with solid non-showoffy rhythms that aren't just lifted from your everyday pop punk band. Standouts for me are:

1)Green Eyes
2)Clean Up
3)Always
4)This Is Dungeon Music

This album is always what I play when I can't decide what else to listen to. Definitely pick it up because you won't be disappointed.

What's Interesting about This?.......2006-02-01

I should know better by now. Seeing I Am the Avalanche's moniker and the thrill of self-disintegration it promises, I long for a reapproach to that feeling that other bands labelled emo create: the William Burroughs stream-of-consciousness of At the Drive-In, the intellectual gutter-punk of Fugazi, the dizzying cacophonies of Radiohead. I hope against hope that a record label thought to specialize in the next wave of alternative music can offer anything slightly interesting. The drive-thru label, like usual, doesn't come through.

Because nothing is more predictable and safe than this avalanche: the same slow-fast "dynamics" that should have been laid to rest with Kurt Cobain, the archetypal "dead girlfriend" song that more or less dropped off the cliff after Axl Rose got a pop hit out of it (though Kurt did well with the theme in "Polly"-but he's Kurt and noone else is!), the melding of styles that wants to be adventurous but only ends up turgid (mixing slow skank, locker-room chants, and the same old distorted three-chord tune in "Murderous").

There are the same old flip lyrics taken from the playbook of like-minded bands such as Blink 182 and A Simple Plan, lyrics that mimic the sturm und drang of the singer's life, seemingly calculated to align he and his bandmates with some rioutous tradition. Different associations altogether come to mind when I listen to him:
I'm ready for the next train wreck.
A new disaster,
`cause I'm getting good
at falling down
and playing dead.
He then goes on to catalogue a list of other disasters in the whiny voice that the "emo singer" is supposed to have, while the guitars slash melodically along. Yes, there is a wreck going on here, but it is a lumbering one, not the kind that comes from musical anarchy. I'm learning now that I'll find more authentic hardcore attitude by listening to Anton Webern, Thelonious Monk, or Nancy Sinatra than by giving the newest emo simulation a chance.

amazing....emo/punk.......2005-12-19

i listen to alot of emo/punk and these guys stand out, Vinnie writes amazing emotional songs like on I Took A Beating. Creative but originial mixed in. What can i said about it, just get it!