{"id":490,"date":"2008-10-10T15:24:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T20:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.themetalden.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2009-05-30T20:28:27","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T01:28:27","slug":"metal-news-source-tmd-newschimaira-have-made-availablle-the-fourth-in-a-series-of-updates-that-documents-the-making-of-their-upcoming-new-album%c2%a0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"UNSIGNED BAND NEWS: ROCKET REVIEW: Elevator Death Squad &#8211; &#8220;Manifesto&#8221; (CD\/LP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Elevator Death Squad\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/MANIFESTOcdinsertfrontcover.jpg\" alt=\"EDS\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"TMD Rocks!\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" alt=\"TMD Rocks!\" width=\"300\" height=\"31\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The beauty of being in underground heavy music is that your band\u2019s studio  productions don\u2019t always have to be well-produced to leave a menacing statement.  Endicott, New York\u2019s <strong>Elevator Death Squad<\/strong> offers up  \u201cManifesto\u201d, a self-released thrash metal album that features ten solid attempts  at accomplishing just that. Opening up with &#8216;Darker Shade Of Solitude&#8217; the dual  guitar work and pummeling drum attack turns out to be perfectly simple enough to  grab your attention. The Lamb Of God-influenced vocal work makes the whole  listening experience grow even more sinister on the next set of intensely pissed  off tracks, &#8216;Essence Of Misery&#8217; and &#8216;Diluted Memories&#8217;, while an Iron Maiden  vibe joins us for \u2018Hourglass For The Dead\u2019, along with a Slayer meets D.R.I.  format that next wonderfully creeps in for some ultra blast beat chaos in the  form of title track \u2018Manifesto\u2019. \u2018Darkness Decaying The Unwilling\u2019 features a  wicked guitar solo from lead guitarist Neil Hendrickson and seems to find the  band firing on all cylinders here, taking it all up a notch with track seven\u2019s  immensely brutal \u2018Ceremonial Sins\u2019. Rounding it all out are the next hard  hitting pummelers &#8216;Single Bullet Theory&#8217;, &#8216;Product of Society&#8217; and &#8216;Shattered  Realm&#8217;. It&#8217;s safe to say that EDS won&#8217;t be invited on tour with any of today&#8217;s  current crop of glossy MTV bound metalcore outfits with material as downright  <em>dark and ugly<\/em> as &#8220;Manifesto&#8221;, but then again I think you&#8217;ll be hard  pressed to find anyone in this band who truly gives a shit about that sort of  popularity game. And to me, that&#8217;s the coolest goddamn thing about this  record.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rocket\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/ROCKETCORE66.jpg\" alt=\"Rocket\" width=\"250\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>ROCKET REVIEW:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ELEVATOR DEATH SQUAD<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Manifesto&#8221; (CD\/LP)<\/p>\n<p>(Self Released\/2008)<\/p>\n<p>1.Darker Shade Of Solitude<br \/>\n2.Essence Of Misery<br \/>\n3.Diluted  Memories<br \/>\n4.Hourglass For The Dead<br \/>\n5.Manifesto<br \/>\n6.Darkness Decaying The  Unwilling<br \/>\n7.Ceremonial Sins<br \/>\n8.Single Bullet Theory<br \/>\n9.Product of  Society<br \/>\n10.Shattered Realm<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/elevatordeathsquad607\">www.myspace.com\/elevatordeathsquad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beauty of being in underground heavy music is that your band\u2019s studio productions don\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26,19],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metal-reviews","tag-metal-news","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}