rome asleep

Location:
mannheim, DE
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Thrash
Site(s):
ROME ASLEEP might be German punk's best-kept secret. What you might call thinking person's post-hardcore, theirs is a jittery aggressiveness with roots in 90's California punk (particularly the San Diego variety charted by groups like PITCHFORK and SWING KIDS) coupled with a progressive structuring which brings to mind the best aspects of AT THE DRIVE-IN. Infused with sardonic wit and a self-deprecating awareness of just how fickle "the kids" really are, their debut 3-song EP captures the band's live intensity and wastes no time in getting to the point. A hurricane of elastic rhythms and flailing vocals, "Disco Abortion" references groups like JR EWING and the BLOOD BROTHERS with thoroughly pummeling results; "We Are Digit", meanwhile, has its tongue place firmly in its cheek, indicting the "dance-punk" phenomenon by out-Rapturing THE RAPTURE. The standout track, "Youth Grinder", sarcastically suggests the endemic pointlessness of western civilization as evident to someone on the threshold of the rest of their life: "While adulthood stole a lot of our curiosity / I still wonder what my next drink will be". ROME ASLEEP provide a glimmer of hope in a world full of FALL OUT BOYs, not to mention being an utterly convincing and inspiring live band. I'm really looking forward to a full-length LP.



(Sonny Kay / Gsl Records , VSS , Year Future)



ABSTRACT:



Basslines grinding on your eardrums, while your brain is turned upside down by frenzy drumbeats. Guitar and voice are completing this orgasmic performance with their razor-like riffs and spittings. The songs express the boredom of todays’ life and breathe the nervousness of completely disappointed youth. Though inspired by such revolutionists as the sex pistols, birthday party or even James Brown, Rome Asleep is a fusion of different styles but stays punk after all. Excommunicated out of nearly every scene and a black sheep to the “stare-and-clap” crowds, the band might be hated or misunderstood but they’ll stick on you like an unwanted love-bite.

Having Hieronymus in mind, who said in 409, “What will remain, if Rome falls?” Rome asleep made their devils pact and fuck the clubs since 2004 incessantly.



PRESS



Ox-Fanzine / Ausgabe 77



"We are young and thirsty / here to piss on your parade / we aim with precision / this isn't fashion it's our fate." Warnung, Warnung! Es folgt eine dringende Empfehlung: ROME ASLEEP aus Mannheim sind gut, groß und hoffentlich bald in ganz Deutschland unterwegs. Ich höre ganz frühe AT THE DRIVE-IN, REFUSED und die BLOOD BROTHERS und schreie: Das ist endlich mal was ehrlich angepisstes! Die Vorbilder stimmen, aber vor allem - und das ist das wichtigste - machen die vier um Sänger Björn Mergarten etwas verdammt interessantes daraus. Die vier Songs ihrer zweiten in Eigenregie veröffentlichten EP, sind rotzig aber auch kritisch. Mit abschätzender Meinung über die mediale Verblödung der Massen, wird hier über Dinge gesungen, die schon lange mal gesagt werden mussten. "We listen closely / and stay up all night / we are here to take away / your plastic life." Also meins habt ihr schon. (9) (Sebastian Wahle)



FUZE / Ausgabe 09



"It's autumn in the forest of punk", verkünden ROME ASLEEP auf ihrer Homepage und machen sich mit ihrer EP ans Abholzen einer Szene, mit deren konformistischer Harmlosigkeit sie nichts zu tun haben wollen. Doch wie sagt man so schön? "Wie man in den Wald hineinruft, so schallt es heraus", und deshalb muss sich auch der Postpunk der Mannheimer den Vorwurf gefallen lassen, nicht gerade alleine auf weiter Flur zu stehen. Wer allerdings so lässig das Hardcore-Verständnis von IT'S NOT NOT mit dem Wahnsinn der FREE DIAMONDS verbindet, der verdient nicht nur Lob sondern vor allem ein Label.



TRUST Nr 130/03



Geiler, hysterischer, arroganter, chaotischer Post-Punk für Freunde von Sängern denen die Augen heraus zu kullern drohen, Refused, Bubonix, Endearment und Brand New, das Artwork macht's dann noch perfekter. (alva)
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