"Alternative Choice" Vincent Brooke's article not only criticized the album "Almost Fame" for nothing, but also nailed the entire band to the pillar of shame. In Vincent's view, the existence of a band like Glory to Death is itself an insult to rock, and the attention of the music media in the entire United States is the beginning of rock depravity and destruction.

This is almost unforgivable.

In fact, this is also the usual commentary style of "alternative choice". The magazine always believes that the commercial attributes of pop music have eliminated the most essential characteristics of music. The reason why underground rock is not recognized by the market is that pop music has corroded the entire music industry. People are confused by those simple and catchy melodies, and they ignore the ideological attributes carried by music itself.

The reason why rock is rock is because since Bob Dylan, the profound meaning of the lyrics has become equally important as music. He has given rock a soul and also made rock an art! This is the essence of what distinguishes rock from any other kind of music.

Therefore, "Alternative Choice" has always insisted on digging out the essence of underground rock, hoping to recreate the glory of the golden age of rock in the 60s and 70s. This is also the reason why "Alternative Choice" was enthusiastically popular with loyal rock fans. The reason why Nirvana Band was able to emerge suddenly was the recommendation of "Rotation" was crucial because the praise of "Rotation" made people widely understand Nirvana Band, but the recommendation of "Alternative Choice" also played a key role, because the praise of "Alternative Choice" made people realize the spirit of Nirvana Band.

However, it is worth mentioning that "Alternative Choice" always has a sense of aloofness in its persistence, believing that rock is the most important existence among all music. They scoffed at the first album of Nirvana and scolded him bloodily, but they highly praised Nirvana's second album "Don't mind"; Similarly, Paul McCartney's album "Off.the.g meat nd" released by the early this year was also criticized by the magazine. Although this album achieved great results in the market, "Alternative Choice" still believes that Paul has gradually lost his creativity to be the only one in the world during the Beatles era.

It can be said that the radical remarks of "alternative choice" are not surprising. If it is the music they like, even if they are unique and have no market, they will recommend it without hesitation; on the contrary, if it is the music they hate, even if it is the music they hate, even if it is the music they are popular, or excellent or big, they will use all their words to express their opinions.

In the past few months since Glory died, he has gained some attention by relying on the name of road tours, but their musical style has always been the object of controversy. As stated in the attitude of "Alternative Choice", the band's style is shocking, which is definitely a subversion of existing rock music. Therefore, once "almost famous" was released, the first batch of comments were strong sniping with "Alternative Choice", which was also expected.

"Alternative Choice" directly penetrates glory to death into the abyss hell of the Antarctic ice and snow, which means that it will never be turned over; but "rotation" shows a completely different attitude. This is relative to "alternative Choice". If it is relative to "rotation" itself, then they continue their usual support and appreciation attitude and take off their hats to glory to death.

"Goeldano Bruno was judged as a heretic by the Inquisition and burned to death in Roman Flower Square because of his defense and development of the Sun Center. Today, Glory stood up bravely and fearlessly to the current rock pattern. They will undoubtedly be judged as heretic by the so-called rock defenders, and then hope to use the power of the cross to crucify the band to death in the Flower Square. But we must have a clear understanding: any new thing comes out and is not accepted by people. We should abandon our prejudice and see this new thing with a correct and calm perspective, and then we will find the truth of the facts."

David Marches, the independent music critic who "rotates" has written articles many times before to express his support for Glory to death. Now Glory has finally released his first official album until his death. Naturally, he stood up immediately and wrote a professional music review manuscript to strengthen his support position once again.

"The great thing about this band Glory to Death is that they continue the soul that Bob Dylan, the Beatles injected into rock music; but they broke the shackles of traditional ideas on rock music and opened up a new sky.

When Elvis Presley merged blues and country music, almost everyone could not expect that this new music genre would become an indispensable part of American life. Rock music that has been passed down from the 1950s has combined different styles such as blues, gospel, jazz, countryside, etc., and has set off a series of thought and cultural movements again and again.

The hippies in the 1960s, the punk and waveless in the 1970s, the new wave after punk, the rave culture in the 1990s, and the cultural influences caused by rock are so powerful that they cannot be expressed in words. Only those who have truly experienced the changes in the past half century can feel the impact of rock on life.

So, what is rock? The cumbersome and gorgeous arrangement? The lengthy and complex guitar? The brave and violent roar? No, none of them. Rock is a life attitude and a life attitude. It opens its arms and embraces various different musical styles. Then, through the band's performance, it truly shows the band's outlook on life, values ​​and worldview. This is an art that comes from life, but because of the different bands and different styles, it interprets a colorful spiritual world.

Glory to death is such a rock band.

Glory to death injected a new atmosphere into rock. They broke the shackles of rock for cumbersome arrangements, and used concise and clear and catchy melody to make everyone qualified to enjoy rock. They made the guitar the situation of leading the guitar back to the state where all members of the band worked together. The bassist, drummer and guitarist abilities were used to form a group. They boldly added the softening and impact of the keyboard on rock, using the keyboard's tone to enrich the colors of rock, and gave more ways to express emotions; most importantly, they injected endless thoughts into rock, touching the heartstrings.

Discussing the issue of ‘what is the rock spirit’ is not rock at all. What is the rock spirit? The self-consciousness of youth, love and peace, opposition to religion, hedonism, pessimism... These are all rock spirits. So, love life, love, family and friendship, breaking dogma, emotional catharsis, social problems... Are these rock spirits? Yes, of course, yes!

The spirit of rock has never been an outline or dogmatic spiritual thought, but is based on individual bands and specific works. All these thoughts come from life and from the life experiences of band members. Every spirit is so special and cannot be copied. This is the charm of the spirit of rock.

Glory To Die In His First Album, "Almost Fame", implemented this idea throughout and showed all the keys a band needs. After listening to the album "Almost Fame", it is hard to imagine that this is a band that has been established for less than a year, because the maturity and ideological nature of their music have reached the top level, just like the Goatskin band that emerged this year and the Radio Commander Band, Glory To Die, has such a high level, which is admirable.

The attitude of life shown in the ‘second chance’ is full of hippies’ wanderings, but at the same time it is not simply decadent, but rather full of hope for life and expectation; ‘Don’t be upset about the past (don’t.look.back.in.anger)’ is full of ostentatious decadence, but it also brings the freedom and persistence of breaking the status quo and running towards the future; ‘kill.heroes’ dreamy and hazy positive spirit brings the band’s infinite courage to break the status quo; ‘lithium’ outlines the collapsed souls under the huge pressure of society, and without any reservation, catharsis pushes the band’s spirit to **!

In the album "Almost Fame", the band conveys a positive attitude towards life. The atmosphere of decadence, darkness, depression and collapse are the main theme, but the love for life conveyed in the lyrics and melodies, including friendship, family and love support, fully interprets the band's spirit.

This makes people think of the band's name, "death.or.glory", glory or death. This shows the band's unwavering belief in running towards their rock dreams. No matter whether the end is glory or death, they will not give up easily. This is the true rock spirit.

It is worth mentioning that Lancaster, the lead singer and album producer of Glory to the Death, showed brilliant talent during the production of the entire album. The eleven songs of the entire album are very complete, and the album positioning has reached a high degree of uniformity. Lancaster's creative talent and production ability can undoubtedly be regarded as the leader in the rock field at present. This can definitely be regarded as the best album in 1993!

Many people's general impression of rock is that of popular dress, radical thoughts, decadent attitudes... but all this is just prejudice. Rock is not alternative, but not popular; rock is not long hair and leather jacket, but not guitar and drums; rock is not a hoarse voice that screams! What is rock? Rock is the attitude of life, and this is the true meaning of rock. If you have to add a framework to rock, then this action itself has lost the spirit of rock.
Chapter completed!