So this guy wrote this...
"I've been friends with Dave forever, including but not limited to our time together in Migrations. I can't believe this is the first time I've shared the stage with JUST DIE!, especially considering that the band's been at this for 4 years or so. I've had the shirts (I wore one of their shirts to our Greenville show, actually), the CDs, the stickers... I even got to sit in on a JD! practice in Dave's old house. I finally got to see the show and, holy shit, it was 25 minutes of war!
Intensity has many faces. Our intensity is the intensity of the living world. Wolves alope in the towering shadow of blinding glacial cliffs. A gazelle born with the speed and agility to elude predation before it has seen a single sunset. An eagle glides over a lake, not far over the water. The eagle knows the multitudinous fish beneath the water, but it patiently sails over a hundred - over a thousand - until the strike, and the strike is sudden. The chosen fish is in the talons, is in the air, is on its way to the nest of beaks agape and aimed to the sky in a prayer of instincts. Blag'ard's intensity is the intensity of a stock car on fire, its maniac driver still stomping the gas until the thing either explodes or grinds to a halt. JUST DIE! is the intensity of a severe thunderstorm racing through a modern city, an arsenal of donder and blitzen and hail and slashing rain to deafen and blind and destroy you - and then be gone. It leaves you refreshed, thrilled, fearless.
It's about the raw outpouring of emotion, bay-bee. It's about how good that feels, and every member of this tight quartet is celebrating some kind of release when they play. Dave churns the waters in the sky, slashing the innocent blue to a serious gray, and Josh's bass rolls the big cloud along in a groove-heavy gallop. Heavy crackle from Matt's SG, lethal riff lightning that dances within the cloud and sarcastically backhands the radio towers. All along, Steve - human size and very human - is running down the empty streets of the city in the pouring rain, laughing his ass off in unrestrained joy.
It was kind of like that and it was nothing like that. Lo, the people did mosh and there was one dude who knew all the words and celebrated along with the band - all unrestrained joy and fucking grins and shared microphones and this is what rock and roll is all about, you see? It's a shared experience, and JUST DIE! is a band that loves to share. What they have for the world is more than just hard core - is more than just drums + guitar + bass + ranting - it's release, and they brought enough for everyone."
-Corby, Afraid of the Bear Blog
Other Reviews...
"Here's a six-track EP of super energetic hardcore from that open-minded oasis in the Deep South known as Asheville. Geographically caught between the melodic emo capital of Gainesville, Florida, and the hardcore beatdown spots of the East Coast cities to the north, JUST DIE captures these two sounds in an impressive blend that really works. The band is tight, with killer guitar licks and great drumming, and the singer has an especially conspicuous, raspy voice that carries them one step above the pack of current hardcore sounds. Think of a slightly tougher STRIKE ANYWHERE or a slightly more emo version of CARRY ON, and you'll get the idea. I can see these dudes getting big." -BG, MAXIMUMROCKNROLL 320
"Furious, speedy hardcore that didn’t forget to pack the melody along before it explodes out of the gate at a hundred MPH; strong songwriting and definite nods to everything from ‘80s skate rock shredding to soaring choruses reminiscent of Hot Water Music. A hell of a six song 7” by this band from Asheville. I’m glad I got exposed to them." –Jake Shut, Razorcake (SELF AWARE/DEAD END)
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