THE TRUE PATH...

to stupidity is what you get here! STATEMENT have been on the forefront of the HARDLINE movement, together with RAID and VEGAN REICH and I guess the are among the bands that the members of EARTH CRISIS would name as their influences. music-wise this 7" that was released on HARDLINE REC. isn´t that far from EARTH CRISIS even though STATEMENT haven´t been as METAL as EARTH CRISIS, you can even hear some parts that are PUNK once in the blue moon! the sad part of this 7" is that lyric-wise STATEMENT chose to, you guessed it, spread their "militant" HARDLINE bullshit ideology (which includes homophobia and other stupidity that you couldn´t tell from their lyrics)! as they had lyrics like "...WHEN I SEE THE NAZI SCUM TUMBLE, FOR THEN I KNOW TO INFLICT PAIN..." HARDLINE was hip in Europe all of sudden, but somehow many of the people labeling themselves HARDLINE didn´t understand that STATEMENT / HARDLINE referred to carnivores as nazi scum and here and there people weren´t that happy with their HARDLINE tattoos anymore that they couldn´t get quick enough before! (TINY GIANTS anyone?) when I bought this 7" I knew nothing about HARDLINE and since after reading their militant lyrics I considered them a joke till I got more infos on HARDLINE and their narrow-minded point of view! since then I`m convinced they´re a gang of posers and full of shit! if anyone has a story of any HARDLINEr who lifed up to the militant bullshit they always talked about I´d love to hear it! and just in case you haven´t figured out for yourself till now let me tell you that no one with a mental capacity above that of an average doorknob would consider their lyrics reasonable or even get the idea they might be worth a 2nd thought (with the exception of doing so for entertainment´s sake)!

STATEMENT - PREPARE FOR BATTLE 7"