| It took me no more than two guitar chords
for me to fall in love with the guitar sound of I Decline. Gritty, dirty, fuzzy,
beautifully thick power chords are the backbone of this band. Heavy is not an adequate
word to describe the weight guitarists Mike Pesavento and Tommy Bucina unleash on this
album.
If this amazing guitar sound was to be taken on
its own, I Decline could easily fall into the genre of modern stoner rock bands. Bands
like Queens of the Stone Age and Fu Manchu have produced similar sounds from their dueling
guitars. I Decline takes that sound and layers the influences of industrial artists such
as Nine Inch Nails and Ministry to create a sort of musical cross breed that is very
powerful and dark while maintaining a sense of groove that I have never heard an
industrial band embrace before. I would like to sneer my lips in empathy of the anger in
Dustin Decline’s vocals, but I can’t seem to make my head stop nodding up and
down in pure enjoyment of their steady wall of guitar bliss.
I hesitated to comb the linear notes for lyrics
to this album, fearing that I would find only the tired themes of death, pain, and
vampirism common to the industrial thread. While that element is definitely present in
some of the songs on Soundtrackfortherestofyourlife, I was happily surprised to
also find tributes to the old west and thoughtful commentary on economic classism
While this might not be the soundtrack I’d
want played for every moment of my life, it fits perfectly for those times I need to get
in touch with my dark side or just need something to blast in my car loud enough to make
the windows vibrate.
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