Bury Your Dead – Cover Your Tracks
Author: Alan Wierdak
Don King and the National Enquirer should get their hands on this before any hardcore kid. Why? It looks to be a good fight between Nicole Kidman and New England’s Bury Your Dead over who has the biggest Tom Cruise infatuation. Nicole may win, since Bury Your Dead’s “love” for Tom Cruise only extends to the song titles on their recent Victory Records effort, Cover Your Tracks, which is about 35 minutes of extremely aggressive hardcore. Cover Your Tracks is, in a lot of ways, more of the same as their 2002 Alveran records release You Had Me At Hello. The main difference between the 2 albums is production, which is a result of their signing to Victory Records. How can you tell the production’s better? It’s quite obvious since “So Fucking Blues”, “Tuesday Night Fever”, and the dancefloor-favorite “Mosh ‘n Roll” all appear under new names on Cover Your Tracks. However, for the most part, Bury Your Dead is still the same simple, yet destructive monster they were before, with fast paced hardcore and beautifully-nasty mosh parts. The only real standout on Cover Your Tracks is “Magnolia”, which has a much more melodic feel to it, that is until the devastating breakdown at the end. Overall, if you were into Bury Your Dead when they started, this album should definitely do nothing but strengthen your enjoyment. Expect the same level of intensity, speed, and mosh as you heard with You Had Me At Hello, and just add better production, and subtract the “GOT ANY WEED??” part of the “Mosh ‘n Roll” There’s some re-recorded old songs, and some new ones with the same song structure, but Bury Your Dead still is a perfect fit for any fan of hardcore, or Tom Cruise.
7/10.
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