Beware all false pretenders to the throne, here there be blue blooded bastards. Welcome Todays Ass Kickers: New Model Army. Led by fire driven Justin Sullivan, NMA have blazed a trail through multiple decades never conceding or laying down their founding principles. NMA are rebel upstarts one part Punk one part goth and one part neither. Musically they are solid and lyrically razor sharp. There is a quality and timelessness to their style and message with their hearts firmly pinned to their sleeves they have never given up but rushed headlong into the fray regardless of number or weapon.
Please for the sake of your persons listen without fear, just drown in the sounds of true brilliance. They are on the top of my list of bands that should have made it big time but alas proper dentistry and the unwillingness to play nice has put a paid to mass-appeal. Here are some choice tracks for your benefit. Enjoy fully:
White Coats (Live Mera Luna - Listen carefully the high pitch scream is coming from me)
Shudder except to growl by chance no chance this will be a little kindness in return for poison On further past the nettles and punctured spleens
Extravagances of time circulating and performing desperate acts seeks the wave and not the ledge and what of the horizon be it any other color save your own for a jagged piece of simple truth a dagger a cup and the cruelties of unfortunates
On to land and not to take the bleakest sip to higher ground and yes to look down with sympathy and despair to spite an angel a devil must be born on halves of have nots and whispers like rehearsed static ask for nothing for sake of change no change
What of grace and the fleeting glimpse sometimes promised of the far way and enviable times not so wretched and despised It is past due and properly so lest to whither untouched on the vein of understanding Penance by none save the guilty
self imposed little cataract with the fury marking ground so groundless in regard to none but the soiled and burden Eager clippings and desperate lunges I wish you a better vantage point
The luxury of the damned is knowing it justly so what of time and its sister memory what is your motives and the true story behind all lingers afoul and screams of fashion not fault fickle is the base of the baseless
So through the wooded grey meets the vertical aligned of substance and real a morsel of dignity offered to the cruel and bloated it is with pity and loss not hate or derision in respect all things must be ordered to be attained
I Have been flirting with this band for years, never really sure If I liked them or loved them. Its that strange ass hybrid of Metal and Goth which tend to make all the artists sound like the same damn band most of the time. I am a lyric whore and dammit I do prefer a guitar over a synth any-day. With this band you get both, plus the added bonus of a brand new singer and guitarist! I must say they stole my respect and my love at Mera Luna giving a brilliant show and walking a great line between Goth and Rock. Sadly there isnt much with the new singer as of yet. In the mean time try some of this on see if it fits.
