100% PROOF — New Way Of Livin' (review)

100% PROOF — New Way Of Livin' album cover EP · 1980 · NWoBHM Buy this album from MMA partners
2.5/5 ·
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Old way of livin'...

Genre: NWoBHM

Nothing new here. THis is pretty much run-of-the mill hard rock, with a few exceptions though.

The first track "New Way of Livin'" is a straight AC/DC style heavy rocker akin to "Let There Be Rock" or "Whole Lotta Rosie". While it contains some nice riffage, it becomes quite repetitive and boring, simply because it is too long. IT would have worked better had it been 2:50 minutes and not almost 5 minutes. "Lookin' In" is more of a mixture of punk (a la OI) and ska music, and, while that could have worked well, I do not find it that convincing in this particular case. "What's the Cost?", like "New Way of Livin'", is a pretty average rock song. It's not bad, but there's nothing new or interesting about it either. The final track is an instrumental, which contains some nice twin-guitar melodies and some interesting changes, but it also makes my chees-o-meter go up a couple of times.

While the music is okay hard rock music, the lyrics annoy me. It's not so much because they are Christian, but because they are so preachy and brodering on being missionary lyrics, and unfortunately that makes this album remind me of the missionaries from various Christian groups that knock on my door and stop me in the streets, trying to convert me.

Maybe it's the absence of lyrics that makes the instrumental my favorite track on this album.

Recommended to fans of hard rock and traditional heavy metal as well as NWoBHM aficionados.
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