Halifax - The Inevitability Of A Strange World

Drive-Thru Records


4 out of 5 stars

This band hailing from Thousand Oaks, CA describes themselves as “a bridge between rock, punk, and metal.” I think that’s a pretty accurate description.  When I first listened to this cd from start to finish, the first thing I thought was how parts of certain songs took me back to the days when metal and anthem rock ruled.  It’s refreshing to hear a “new” band that’s not afraid to dig into that bag of tricks and pay homage to metal bands that blazed the past before them.

The songs give you a little bit of everything as far as sound goes. It’s like putting my Ipod on shuffle and never getting bored. They lend diversity to each track by mixing up the vocal styles and the guitar stylings.  Some of them start off with melodic riffs then quickly break into agressive crunchy guitars and angry vocals while others start off balladesque and by the end of the song the top is down on your car and your rockin out the devil horns.  The lyrics cover everything from relationships lost and found to the proverbially snow in California. 

As far as particular songs “Hey Italy” is very “Panic At The Disco” to me while “I Told You So” reminds me of VAIN (For any of you who remember them.) So, to sum it up, the sound is a tough one to define.

The first single is “Our Revolution,” and for once, I’d have to agree with the suits.  This song is not only one of the catchiest tracks on the disc, it pretty much begs for a party to surround it.  It could probably be followed up nicely by “Anthem For Tonight” which follows in the same vein with a cool breakdown midsong that they even sing you through.

“Such A Terrible Trend” is their lighter song.

If you think the band name sounds familiar, you may have seen them scraping their way to to the top on Warped Tour in the past.  They also made a cameo appearance on MTV’s Real World Austin when they were at South By SouthWest Musical Festival.

The band is currently on tour, I’m looking forward to checking them out, you should too!

Halifax on MySpace

Tour Dates:
Jun 9 Avalon Theater Salt lake cit, UT
Jun 10 The Marquis theatre Denver, CO
Jun 11 Sokol underground Omaha , NE
Jun 13 The House of bricks Des moines, IA
Jun 14 Beat Kitchen Chicago, IL
Jun 15 Beat Kitchen Chicago, IL
Jun 16 Top Cats Cincinnati, OH
Jun 17 2006 Magic Stick Detroit, MI
Jun 18 House of Blues - Cleveland Cleveland, OH
Jun 19 Piere’s Entertainment Center Fort Wayne, IN
Jun 20 Orbit Room Grand Rapids, MI
Jun 22 Water Street Music Hall Rochester, NY
Jun 24 Sonar Baltimore, MD
Jun 25 Crocodile Rock Allentown, PA
Jun 27 Magic City Music Hall Johnson City, NY
Jun 28 Toads Place New Haven, CT
Jul 11 Trocadero Philadelphia , PA
Jul 13 Festival D’ete Quebec City
Jul 14 Metropolis Montreal
Jul 15 Bluesfest Ottawa
Jul 19 Community Auditorium Thunder Bay
Jul 20 Burton Cummings Wiinipeg
Jul 21 Prairieland Saskatoon
Jul 22 MacEwan Hall Ballroom Calgary
Jul 24 Shaw Conference Centre Vancouver
Jul 25 Croation Cultural Centre Vancouver
Jul 28 Toad’s Place New Haven, CT
Aug 1 Darien Lakes Performing Arts Center Darien Center, NY
Aug 2 Fitchburg Municiple Airport Fitchburg , MA
Aug 3 Tweeter Center Camden, NJ
Aug 4 Montage Mountain Performing Arts Scranton, PA
Aug 5 Nassau Veterans Mem. Coliseum Uniondale, NY
Aug 6 Old Bridge Township Raceway Park Englishtown, NJ
Aug 8 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Charlotte , NC
Aug 9 Verison Wireless Virginia Beach Virginia Beach, VA
Aug 10 Nissan Pavilion at Stone Ridge Bristow, VA
Aug 11 Tower City Amphitheater Cleveland, OH
Aug 12 Molson Amphitheater Toronto, ON
Aug 13 Park Jean Drapeau Montreal, QC

Reviewed by: Mary | June 2006