Time is scarce, as always, so I'll keep this one quick since I just posted about these cats a little over a week ago. Here's the second and final demo from the painfully underappreciated Elements DEC: 1998's "Hesitation is the Enemy". To me, the sound is basically a tighter take on what they were doing in 1996—there's still plenty of heaviness, tons of melody, tastefully hip-hop influenced vocal arrangements, intelligent lyrical content, etc. So yeah, it still sounds like a more modern version of the almighty Burn in my opinion. The recording's even stronger this time out, though. You can't lose, baby. Certain members of the band aren't wild on the last track, "Any Questions?", but fuck that: Even if the chorus does push it a little bit, that main riff that kicks shit off is fuckin' outstanding! I hope you all enjoy this, since their first demo's already clocked a damn lot of downloads...
1. "Braille"
2. "And Then There Were None"
3. "Hesitation is the Enemy"
4. "Transmissions"
5. "Any Questions?"
As mentioned last time around, several of these guys ended up in Agents of Man a couple of years after the fold of Elements DEC (only one of 'em still resides in the band, though), while a few of the others also cranked out a solid EP with the unfortunately short-lived Galaxy Down. For a brief period of time in recent years there was some talk of an Elements DEC reunion of sorts, but sadly things didn't pan out. Whatever the case, these demos really deserve to be heard, so spread this shit around and drop some knowledge on the uninformed!
Comments
hey its scott st. hilaire, i played guitar on this demo. im writing to let you all know im doing a new band now that is called THE FIRE STILL BURNS, which is more straight-up melodic hardcore, and we are about to release an EP on Blackout! Records. to listen and check out the new band go here:
http://www.myspace.com/thefirestillburns
thanks for reading and thanks for the kind comments about EDEC
love
scott
6.30.2005 | By Anonymous
Andrew, great find once again, thanks for posting this. btw, I’m still rocking those SOC and (216)discs…goddamn, those were the days.
6.30.2005 | By jesse
My old band played our first bona fide show (not counting house shows) with these guys…great band, incredibly nice guys. The show took place in a used bookstore in Albuquerque, and there were a number of aging hippie kooks milling around the store as we were setting up. Their interest piqued by the fact that the band shared its name with a popular jazz standard, they hung around for about 30 seconds into our first song. Then they all made “extremely dissapointed and disapproving” faces and left in a hurry. Heh.
Anyway, I still have this album and I still rock my St. James Infirmary shirt from time to time.
Nice site, this is my first visit here.
7.9.2005 | By Ben
Oh fuck. Due to my head being up my ass, that last post was intended for a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BLOG (which I was simulataneously viewing, here’s to being overly productive while killing productivity; said post is here if you care.)
Needless to say, disregard previous post. Aargh.
7.9.2005 | By Ben