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LiveconformdieVol. II: Music For Living Failures (EP)

Independent
5th August, 2022
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Modern Mayhem

For anyone who’s been living under a rock, nu metal and its many nostalgic sonic cousins have been having a bit of a *moment* of late, and Perth modern metallers liveconformdie are hurling everything they’ve got at the world this week with the release of a new EP Vol II: Music For Living Failures.

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With inspirations ranging from Slipknot, Korn, and Limp Bizkit to $uicideboy$, Royal Blood and Brockhampton, liveconformdie, aka Conform, have been entirely non-conforming to any one genre label since their inception, instead harnessing the roots of modern metal and late 90s/early 200s nu metal – but with a distinctly modern twist. Forming back in 2015, the band have already steadily flexed what they’re made of via a debut album Circa back in 2018 and various singles over the years; but it’s in 2022 that the band have thrown the proverbial kitchen sink and every razor-sharp aesthetic in their possession into a dazzling new EP: Vol II: Music For Living Failures. And while the EP may title itself as the perfect ode for the outliers, but there’s no denying this is a release set to ricochet this Perth bunch even higher into the metal stratosphere.



Ominous industrial vibes are entirely on the menu on the EP’s opening track Fetish, with intermittent growling and rapped vocals, snarled instrumentals and an ever-grinding soundscape gurgling below. In The Dark follows next, with 38 seconds of a woozy, stripped-back reprieve cleverly building into the moody and menacing Help Yourself, which, in turn, grabs at modern anthemics, pulsing electronics and swirling light and shade. Rave-meets-metal dialled up to 11 (and then some) next via the relentless and deliciously assaulting Terrorwave, with plenty of Korn-esque drawled vocals lurking in between the measured chaos. 

liveconformdie are also now sitting pretty on just shy of 7 million streams on Spotify alone while also continually proving to be the ultimate antidote to conformity and mundane cookie-cutter creativity – a fact carried with gusto on their brand new EP. Vol. II: Music For Living Failures is anything but its namesake, marking an out-and-out triumph of ingenuity and cutting-edge creativity for fans of nu metal, forward-facing alternative stylings, or ultimately anyone willing to venture into this scintillating assortment of modern mayhem. 

And just when you think you’ve heard all of the tricks in the liveconformdie book? Enter: Trash Culture, a modern hip hop endeavour of dank grooves and vocals readily flitting between rapped, monotone and emo-adjacent delivery. Big Homie gifts a very welcome “It’s Britney, bitch” grab from Queen Britney’s own track Gimme More before diving into serpentine grooves, husky vocals and jam-packed arrangements alongside a searing guitar solo and plenty of nu metal steeze. Vol. 11: Music For Living Failures rounds out in a maelstrom of ferocity, with Nü Life going all out with frenzied guitars, oozing breakdowns and the perfect mix of nostalgic alternative influences and sharp metal injections. 

Having previously shared stages with a sea of international and national heavy-hitters, including Thy Art Is Murder, Chelsea Grin, Born of Osiris, The Amity Affliction, Protest The Hero, Ocean Grove and many, many more, liveconformdie are also now sitting pretty on just shy of 7 million streams on Spotify alone while also continually proving to be the ultimate antidote to conformity and mundane cookie-cutter creativity – a fact carried with gusto on their brand new EP. Vol. II: Music For Living Failures is anything but its namesake, marking an out-and-out triumph of ingenuity and cutting-edge creativity for fans of nu metal, forward-facing alternative stylings, or ultimately anyone willing to venture into this scintillating assortment of modern mayhem. 

STANDOUT TRACKS: Help Yourself, Fetish, Terrorwave
STICK THIS NEXT TO: Justice For The Damned, Lotus Eater, Thornhill, The Gloom In The Corner


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