After the release of the first album "Almost Fame" of Glory to Death, the media's attention was predictable. After all, the band's nearly five-month road tour had created a topic, and Hugo, the band's lead singer, relied on "Schindler's List" to become the hottest topic figure at the end of 1993.

From this perspective, the band's first album is naturally the focus of many people's attention. Even if the band chose the place where they made their first official debut at an independent record store in Berkeley, it attracted more than 30 reporters to arrive at the scene to report, which shows that.

However, after the release of the album "Almost Fame" caused a media reaction like a volcanic eruption, which no one expected. Hundreds of reports and radio programs discussed three times a day, almost making the album "Almost Fame" hot as close to the Jewish reaction caused by the "Schindler's List" in recent times. This can definitely be said to be an unpredictable situation.

Things must be traced back to the first batch of music reviews that "almost famous".

After the release of "Almost Famous" on Thursday, two music reviews appeared at the same time on Friday due to their super high attention. The two music reviews came from two magazines, "Rotation" and "Alternative.press".

Both magazines can be said to be pioneer magazines of alternative music. "Rotation" has now become the most representative magazine in independent music, and its sales can even be compared with "Rolling Stones"; while "Alternative Choice" was founded in Ohio in 1985. This magazine mainly focuses on hard-core rock, and contains a large number of alternative rock, pop punk, and metal core types of underground bands. Each issue of the magazine focuses on interviews, photos, and works of underground bands.

The main subscription group of "Alternative Choice" is loyal rock lovers. It is more professional and niche than "Rotation". The music range of "Rotation" also includes different music types such as hip-hop, reggae, and countryside. Therefore, although they all focus on independent music, alternative music, and underground music, the subscription groups of the two are intertwined and different.

These two magazines, also founded in 1985, have become huge competitors after their establishment. "Alternative Choice" has a higher reputation among hardcore rock fans. Its sales are mainly concentrated on the West Coast, and the East Coast market is very sluggish. "Rotation" is simply authoritative in the rock field, but it focuses on music genres more widely and has become an idol-level publication in the independent music industry. Its persistence in alternative music is also different from the conservativeness of "Rolling Stone" and the public, which makes the magazine an irreplaceable existence for loyal music fans.

Obviously, the two magazines are direct competitors themselves, but the "alternative choice" is still limited to the West Coast and among rock enthusiasts. The "rotating" market has blossomed throughout North America. Even some pop music lovers, as long as they are interested in independent music, will pay attention to this magazine.

This time, the first batch of music reviews of "almost famous" triggered a competition between "rotation" and "alternative choice". Obviously, these two magazines have completely different views on this album.

The music critic Vincent Brooke, who used "dislike" or "hate" to describe "alternative choice", has no longer had enough attitude towards the album "almost famous". The adjective he chose was "hate", and he also added three overlapping adverbs "Ten" before this adjective.

"I hate this album, I hate this album very much!" This is the first sentence Vincent wrote for "Almost Famous", which seemed shocking.

"When the grunge represented by Nirvana Band becomes mainstream, all bands begin to follow the trend and imitate it, which gradually makes rock music lose its vitality and revived only after three years of rock seems to have come to an end again. Under such circumstances, people are eager to seek a new breakthrough. Only by breaking the shackles of the style represented by Nirvana Band can rock continue to develop.

This is a fact.

But this does not mean that the band can do whatever it takes, because the music woven with guitar strings is not rock, but may be country; because the music played with the keyboard is not rock, but blues; because forming a complete band is not rock, but may be pop. The reason why rock is called rock is that rock has an inspiring spiritual connotation, rich in the spiritual refraction of the entire era, and at the same time it must have exciting melodies that make people linger and touching lyrics! Not all music can be made of rock, because rock is rock, irreplaceable rock!

When a band does not have technical single-person guitar performance, no complicated and complicated arrangement, or even no distinctive personal style, can this band still be called a rock band? No, of course not! Then can the songs played by this band still be called rock band? Absolutely not!

This is the album "Almost Fame" that is dedicated to glory until death.

After joining the ridiculous keyboardist, this makes the band's style separate from the gorgeousness and heavyness of metal rock, leaving only the circus-like simplicity and funnyness. After the thrilling guitar strings mixed with tender keyboard sounds, the song becomes the clown wandering around with balloons in Disneyland, not only ridiculous, but also boring.

If the band made this mistake, it is forgiven, but the album "almost famous" is far more than that. There are several classic songs in the album, "Don't be upset about the past (don't.look.back.in.anger), "second chance (color cond.news), "nothing (nothing)" and so on, but these songs were all woven into a joke by a "second-rate actor".

‘Don’t worry about the past’ simplification of the melody becomes a vulgar popular repertoire that is simply based on guitar and keys; ‘Second Chance’ hard rock style filled with stitches has become a noise that is ignorant and boring in the hands of street performers; the rich British style in ‘Nothing’ is played with only monotonous guitar strings, making it look like a down-and-out bald old man on Broadway Avenue who will never win the qualification for stage performance…

These songs have the potential to become an excellent song, ‘Don’t worry about the past’ if they can replace the cheap keyboard sound with the combination of guitar and bass; ‘second chance’ if they can add the guitar to play and increase the momentum of the chorus; ‘nothing’ if they can make the melody more complex and gorgeous arrangements…these songs will suddenly become excellent rock songs. But…

Glory To Death obviously wanted to distinguish themselves from Nirvana's style, but their attempts were so bad that they distinguish themselves from rock. Glory To Death is neither hard rock nor metal rock. Even though they have the name of alternative rock, they cannot change the fact that they have lost their rock souls.

Even if the album has the only "lithium" that can be called rock, this song is the closest four minutes and fifteen seconds of the band to rock. This song has the gorgeousness and rage of metal rock, and also has profound and extensive ideological essence. In addition, it has the band's attempts for a brand new music genre, which can be called a refreshing air in the rock field where Nirvana Band dominates the world.

But this song cannot save the entire album, nor can it save the band.

Hugo Lancaster, the lead singer who created glory to death, but he is an actor at work. This is even more ridiculous than a tiger jumping into the fire circle. He completely insulted rock and roll, making rock full of personality and thoughtfulness a product of popular business assembly line, not worth mentioning!

With Hugo's creation, the album of glory to death has completely become pop music. They abandoned their beliefs just to please the audience. Most of the tracks in the album seek the audience's recognition with a simple and clear arrangement style. Compared with the cumbersome and gorgeous grunge arrangement, the arrangement of the songs in "almost famous" is completely the level of children's songs, which undoubtedly attracts more listeners' attention.

Perhaps those vulgar young people who know nothing about rock will buy the album and listen to it when they see the word "rock". The simple and easy-to-understand melody is very pleasing, which can allow their music to spread quickly and even win them more audiences who don't know rock.

But they can't deceive us or ourselves. The music they make is not rock and roll at all. It can only be said to be a degenerate who betrays their souls to commercial pop!

When technology is no longer important, an open and concise structure will only destroy the essence of rock; when thoughts are no longer important, the cry of being close to the masses and being close to life will only become nonsense; when arrangements are no longer important, the catchy melody will only make rock gradually assimilate into a melody without personality and even cannot be called music!

This is a disaster! A band that cannot be found in a position, such as Glory to Death, is unwilling to use the sacred words of "rock" to describe this band, because it is an insult to rock.

Full of roar, aggressive, permeated with masculinity, noisy metal style, gorgeous and dazzling arrangements interspersed with hearty guitar performances, this is the true meaning of rock. But all of this disappeared from glory to death. The new music style that glory to death boasts is a humiliation and rage of the entire rock music. This kind of music is regarded as a classic work by those media. This is simply a degenerate act. Perhaps, rock is really going to perish again.

So, I hate this album, and I hate this band even more!”
Chapter completed!