25 Ta Life

(Striving For Togetherness)
by Jon Sarre

This NYC hardcore band is dedicated to quixotically tilting at the windmills of lies, back-stabbers, the government, and violence. 25 Ta Life‘s purpose is to unite disparate groups of people who otherwise would be fighting each other. The message is laudable, but the music itself gets buried in a swamp of sub-heavy metal riffs, and the production reduces the vocals to a barely intelligible growl. Imagine if Paul Revere rode through the Massachusetts countryside yelling “Urrgh! Rawwl! Aurrugh!” We’d all be driving on the wrong side of the street. At least there’s a lyric sheet provided.