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I listened to an mp3 and ░║█ █║░ thought nothing of it at first, then ░║█ █║░ I stumbled upon them on a webzine of ░║█ █║░ some sort. They were categorized ░║█ █║░ under the ever so popular SCREAMO ░║█ █║░ genre. But it took me the chance to ░║█ █║░ see them live that made me realize ░║█ █║░ that this is not just some screamo ░║█ █║░ band. The Kodan Armada is a hardcore ░║█ █║░ band. The Kodan Armada is a punk rock ░║█ █║░ band. But most importantly, The Kodan ░║█ █║░ Armada is a passionate band. Every ░║█ █║░ single member of the band puts their ░║█ █║░ heart and soul into this band. They ░║█ █║░ play like this band is their life, ░║█ █║░ and it is. It truly is. ░║█ █║░ ░║█ █║░ Now enough about that life crap, ░║█ █║░ let's talk about this album. This CD ░║█ █║░ consists of their songs from the 4 ░║█ █║░ splits they have put out (all on like ░║█ █║░ 17 different labels, OOP SCREAMO) ░║█ █║░ since they began only 3 years ago in ░║█ █║░ a city called Louisville, ░║█ █║░ Kentucky...famous for making baseball ░║█ █║░ bats and being in ░║█ █║░ the same state as Fort Knox. There's ░║█ █║░ 16 tracks on this cd, but only 9 of ░║█ █║░ them are actually songs, while the ░║█ █║░ rest serve as interludes of excerpts ░║█ █║░ from various live shows explaining ░║█ █║░ the meaning of the songs. The songs ░║█ █║░ are all of very personal subject ░║█ █║░ matter, from child molestation to ░║█ █║░ crooked cops in your own hometown, to ░║█ █║░ even just needing to express yourself ░║█ █║░ in anyway possible, every song has a ░║█ █║░ deep meaning that anybody could ░║█ █║░ relate to. The opening track, ░║█ █║░ entitled "No Has Never Had Three ░║█ █║░ Letters", begins with a dragging, ░║█ █║░ brooding intro, while every single ░║█ █║░ member of the band offers their ░║█ █║░ commentary on the situation. Almost ░║█ █║░ like that flashback that Matthew ░║█ █║░ Broderick has in The Cable Guy when ░║█ █║░ he keeps hearing quotes from the ░║█ █║░ other main characters over and over ░║█ █║░ again...anyways, the intro eventually ░║█ █║░ leads into an amazing climactic blast ░║█ █║░ of Saetia-esque hardcore, complete ░║█ █║░ with window cracking screams, and ░║█ █║░ echoing, almost distant singing in ░║█ █║░ the background. It rules. Every song ░║█ █║░ on this disc has this exact formula, ░║█ █║░ but The Kodan Armada have worked it ░║█ █║░ into a formula to where those songs ░║█ █║░ can be played on repeat over and over ░║█ █║░ and over again, and still have replay ░║█ █║░ value in the end. ░║█ █║░ ░║█ █║░ In one of the more interesting (and ░║█ █║░ fucking awesome) moments of the disc, ░║█ █║░ The Kodan Armada breaks down during ░║█ █║░ the song "One" into their own little ░║█ █║░ rendition of "Carry On My Wayward ░║█ █║░ Son", which of course is by old-guy ░║█ █║░ rock pioneers Kansas ("Carry on/my ░║█ █║░ wayward son/ there'll be peace when ░║█ █║░ you are gone/ lay your weary head to ░║█ █║░ rest/ don't you cryyy no mo!")...it ░║█ █║░ will hit you by suprise, it's totally ░║█ █║░ sweet. But the real "fucking ░║█ █║░ awesome"/"totally sweet" moment of ░║█ █║░ this CD has got to be the 4:52 of ░║█ █║░ "Say Something", it is easily the ░║█ █║░ most powerful track on the album, ░║█ █║░ lyrically ("These things are ░║█ █║░ hazy/kinda shitty sometimes/but we ░║█ █║░ gotta live it up/gotta do what the ░║█ █║░ fuck we wanna do cause this is our ░║█ █║░ lives/what do we have to lose?") and ░║█ █║░ musically. I witnessed The Kodan ░║█ █║░ Armada play this song live, and it ░║█ █║░ was almost like a holy experience, ░║█ █║░ each member broke down and screamed ░║█ █║░ their lungs out for 15 minutes ░║█ █║░ straight, screaming their lungs out ░║█ █║░ about everything wrong and right ░║█ █║░ going on in their lives, sending ░║█ █║░ everyone and important message about ░║█ █║░ living and breathing the music you ░║█ █║░ make, and seeing that restored my ░║█ █║░ faith in hardcore, a genre I was once ░║█ █║░ getting so tired of. In conclusion, ░║█ █║░ this disc is totally worth your ░║█ █║░ money, and it would be a good idea to ░║█ █║░ rush out and buy it as soon as you ░║█ █║░ can. It would be an even better idea ░║█ █║░ to go see them live as well, it was ░║█ █║░ one of the best bands I have ever ░║█ █║░ seen live, even better than when I ░║█ █║░ saw Weird Al Yankovic in 4th grade at ░║█ █║░ the county fair. This album is ░║█ █║░ essential for any hardcore ░║█ █║░ collection. Booyah. ░║█ █║░ ░║█ █║░ Rating: 4.5 ░║█ █║░ ░║█ █║░ http://www.decoymusic.com/reviewscont ░║█ █║░ ent.php?review=1244 ░║█ █║░ ░║█ █║░ ░║█ █║░ ░║█ █║░ GREETZ : ESC SOUR RNS C4 MOD BPM XXL ░║█ █║░ ░║█ █║░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░█░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░║█ █╚═════════════════╦═══╩═══╦═════════════════╝█ ███████████████████║OBSCENE║███████████████████ █╚═══════╝█ ███████████