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In Due Time
Back To Basics
2004, Strike First Records
If you aren‘t sure where in Florida In Due Time hail from, just open the CD case; you‘ll find it in very large numerals on the CD itself (904 area code, if you‘re interested). Now, I‘ve never been even close to Florida, so I have no clue where the big 904 is, but I might be a little more interested in finding out if only In Due Time weren‘t such an achingly stereotypical hardcore band. Raised-fist, shout-along, top-of-the-moshpit-pile...you get the picture. This is their first album on Strike First, a label dedicated to finding and exposing young talent, and it‘s a sure bet that IDT will make better records than this if they don‘t become casualties of whatever virus it is that breaks up promising bands after their first record or one year, whichever comes first.
The music: breakdowns galore albeit marred with subpar production, songs extremely predictable and therefore easy to learn the chanting parts to, and lyrical focus on togetherness, checking your ego at the door, and what hardcore means, with an overt Christian focus. In fact, the cover of the album features a classy band logo superimposed over an image of Jesus Christ with heart exposed. Perhaps most interesting is that the band photo showcases a clean-cut dude in the middle - that would more than likely be vocalist Eric Hunt - flanked on both sides by clean-cut dudes who look like they might be ten years younger.
They mean well, I‘m sure they‘re super-nice guys and I bet they‘re fun wrecking a live stage down in Florida (a hardcore band has to really suck not to be fun live in my opinion, and this band doesn‘t suck), but until the songs vary a little from the tried-and-true formula of power chords and naked brutality, In Due Time won‘t get a whole lot of attention from me.