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New Found Glory is a band that needs no introduction. After five full-length albums with the Universal Records family, the band has risen from an obscure group of five guys from South Florida to an international powerhouse with millions of CDs & tickets sold. Back in the late 90s, the concept of “hardcore kids playing in a pop punk band” was something that got a snicker from the hardcore scene and a decade after starting, New Found Glory finds themselves in the unique position to control their destiny-and if accepting an offer to do an EP with Boston-based hardcore label Bridge Nine Records is something they want to do-then that’s what will happen.
New Found Glory’s Tip Of The Iceberg & The International Superheroes Of Hardcore Takin It Ova is a two-disc CD set that is the band’s second post-major label studio release since the release of 2006’s Coming Home. New Found Glory have never been a band content with staying put and as Chad Gilbert, former Shai Hulud vocalist, current International Superheroes of Hardcore vocalist & current guitarist for NFG, stated, “Now that we’ve got a break in between contracts, it’s been fulfilling to take this time and do whatever we want and write and record music with no pressure on us except writing songs for ourselves and our fans.”
Tip Of The Iceberg is the first out this two-disc set. Featuring three original New Found Glory songs and three covers of Gorilla Biscuits, Shelter & Lifetime, Gilbert said about the covers, “There are some who might not know the bands that influenced us to start in the first place, so it’s a great chance to show where we came from.” Recorded in just two days in November with Paul Miner (engineer for Coming Home and From The Screen To your Stereo II), it’s an energetic, powerful collection that shows New Found Glory is putting out something that sounds inspired, heavy, & fast- all the while having melodies that won’t leave your head.
Disc 2 is the full-length album by the International Superheroes Of Hardcore titled Takin It Ova. Featuring all five members of New Found Glory with Jordan & Chad swapping vocal & guitar duties, this is what happens when New York hardcore influences, the New Found Glory’s trademark off-key sense of humor, and some time off from touring come crashing together. The result is a 12-song album that takes on the hardcore scene ills of talking shit, genres they find offensive, eBay, save driving & their open appreciation for NYHC stalwarts Madball set to a hardcore soundtrack which, if you were unaware, you’d NEVER guess was played by the members of New Found Glory. Fitting alongside bands like Crucial Youth & Grudge, it’s one more example of New Found Glory deciding that they wanted to do something- and then doing it. Takin It Ova shows a side of the band people might not have known and after a self-released 7-song, limited edition CD of only 1000 copies, this is the first official North American release of the ISHC full-length album.
New Found Glory uses Dean Markley’s Blue
Steel Bass ML and
Blue Steel
Electric MED.
Ian says:
Dean Markley has to be one of the nicest and easiest companies
to work with. Never have I worried about not having enough strings
on tour, and never have I worried about breaking strings like
I did when I used another company’s strings (who I won’t mention). I also know that Dean Markley’s
will sound good, and look pretty…
Be sure to visit the New Found Glory website at:
www.NewFoundGlory.com.
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