Because the "New School" gets boring from time to time...

Once a week, from now on I will be doing a very special "Blast From The Past" post where I review an album from an old school band in the music scene.  There have been many amazing bands throughout history, some that heavily influenced the sound of today and some that never got mainstream play but still deserve to be on everyones playlist.  So in that respect, "Blast From The Past" will come up once a week.

Throughout the 90's there was a huge wave of Emo and melodic hardcore music, this sound was much different than that of today.  One of the most influential bands from the early melodic hardcore scene was a group from New Jersey called Lifetime.  In 1997 Lifetime broke up but not before they released their third album, "Jerseys Best Dancers" which was twelve tracks of hard hitting, glass half-full melodic hardcore. Lifetime knew how to hit their fans with the hardcore sound but with providing a more positive feel.  This sound was very different and new compared to the other hardcore acts in the scene who were simply delivering raw angry hardcore music.  Lifetime is in an amazing band and by giving it a listen, you can hear the roots this band planted which then grew into the sound crafted by bands like The Movielife, Senses Fail and A Day to Remember. Lifetime has a Myspace account, so if you wanna give them a listen go here.

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