Dead Wrong Hellbomb

Lately, it is relatively safe to say that it would be impossible for any hardcore band to not sound similar to another hardcore band, be it one that's around now or one that was around in the past. What keeps this reality from making hardcore boring is the little spins and personal touches that new bands put on old sounds. For example, there are obvious similarities between a band like Terror and a band like Madball, but the dudes in Terror change things up enough for a listener to be able to tell that while they are influenced by Madball, they aren't copying Madball. This ability to "change it up" isn't present among the members of Dead Wrong. They aren't a band that has a heavy Integrity influence. No sir. They are a band that does a substandard job of sounding exactly like Integrity. I know it sucks to read a review where the writer doesn't say anything more than a band sounding exactly like another band, so understand that I'm not saying this because I'm lazy. It's just the truth. This band sounds like Integrity without the vigor and the talent. What we have going on with Dead Wrong is heavy hardcore with fast verses and choruses, and slow, but not all that moshy breakdowns. A lot of these songs are complete with Integrity-esque lengthy intros and guitar solos, except that Dead Wrong's intros are boring and their guitar solos are barely more than noodling up and down a scale with some string bending thrown in for good measure. Integrity could pull off song writing like this because the musicianship was stellar and at the time, there wasn't really anyone else doing hardcore like that. This just sounds like bad outtakes or auditions or something. At least the release was only an EP, so the boredom didn't go on and on forever. From a vocal standpoint, basically what we have is a guy who is trying his hardest to be Dwid, but with a less gnarly voice and a smaller vocabulary. The singer's yell is forced and thin. His lyrics deal with a hatred of the world, being trapped by life, and other related topics. The whole record sounds half-assed to me. Bottom Line: Dead Wrong are a real bad Integrity cover band. Dead Wrong add nothing of their own accord to that classic Integrity sound, and it shows. The music is boring, the vocals are even worse, and I imagine that it's even worse live. Dead Wrong is trying to appeal to the tough guy crowd with this EP, but I don't even think that the most diehard thug dude would find something good about this EP. Next time, try spicing it up or something.