BAND HISTORY
South Florida, a region once known for its humidity and magnetic pull for retirees from across the nation. Now this region is known for its high occurrence rate of hurricanes and home to socio-politico rage-core unit, Remembering Never. This five man unit composed of Mean Pete (vocals), Grease (guitar), Norm (guitar), Aldo (bass) and Danny (drums) is uncompromising hardcore with a message. From a cynical eye towards those who govern in all realms to messages of a vegetarian lifestyle, Remembering Never isn’t afraid to ruffle feathers. Incorporating metallic speed and ire into their guitars, shards of melody and chaotic arrangements that threaten to collapse their sound is a combination of technical skill and primal aggression.
Forming right out of High School around the turn of the millennium, Remembering Never originally had Mean Pete on guitars and Justin Daily on vocals. According to Pete, the band originally sounded like every other band in South Florida and was more based on personal songwriting. The members who were in other bands, including Pete who was a vocalist in Until The End didn’t take Remembering Never too seriously. The group admits at first no one cared for the band and they ended up playing a lot of bad shows. After a year of playing locally, the band recorded an eight song demo that Carl Severson of Ferret Music caught wind of. Severson was impressed enough to want to put the album out, but at the time Ferret was stretched thin on releases. Severson turned the demo over to Chris Tzompanakis of Ferret band, SkyCameFalling who had started his own label, One Day Saviour and was looking for artists. One Day Saviour released the demo in 2001 which went on to sell close to 20,000 copies (it has just been re-released with new artwork).
Shortly thereafter, Daily quit the band to focus on other pursuits. Pete reluctantly picked up the microphone and put down the guitar, a decision he wasn’t entirely comfortable with. At the time of the member switch, Remembering Never had composed a great deal of their first full-length album She Looks so Good In Red and Pete had almost no time to compose lyrics. Musically the album which was released on Ferret Music in 2002 was angrier and more severe than the demo sessions. Lyrically Mean Pete claims it was a joke that only the band members got, as over the top narratives talked about violence against loved one’s and severing of relationships, much like Glassjaw’s first album. Like the aforementioned band, who has since taken a much different approach in their lyrics, Pete regrets anyone thinking that he was serious about any of those lyrics or believing that he advocated abusive acts towards women.
Tour-wise Remembering Never was finally getting out on the road including a stint with Suicide Note as well as tours with On Broken Wings, Evergreen Terrace, Between The Buried and Me, Alexisonfire, and Every Time I Die. When working on material for their next album Women And Children Die First, Pete decided to focus on issues that not only affected him but that would be hardcore anthems. As he wrote in the album’s liner notes “Being in a hardcore band, it is my privilege and my responsibility to share ideas.” As Carl Severson of Ferret claims “That album is really their defining moment. The demo and the first album might as well have been a different band. This album was more extreme, more pissed and more potent.” The second full-length was released in 2004, the significance of the title Women And Children Die First was supposedly the working title of a Slayer album that they were forced to drop by their label. Remembering Never’s album became their signature statement and went on to sell over 70,000 albums worldwide within two years. The album was included in the “Best Of 2004” list for Decibel Magazine as well as coverage in places such as Sirius Satellite Radio, Revolver, Alt Press and other media sources. This album also marked the first time that Remembering Never became a full time band and toured fully behind the album. Tours included co-headlining a PETA sponsored tour with Most Precious Blood as well as tour with Throwdown, The Acacia Strain, ZAO, Terror, Scarlet, Eighteen Visions and It Dies Today.
Several hurricanes and tattoos later, Remembering Never has emerged as one of the most respected voices of the metal-core scene. As of Fall 05, the band entered Planet Z Studios in Massachusetts with wonder producer Zeuss (Hatebreed, Throwdown, Shadows Fall) to record their forthcoming full-length for a spring 06 release titled God Saves Us. It promises to be the most savage and heaviest sounding record to date. It also does a good job of balancing personal lyrics with the worldly messages of the band. The Goddamn Busy Signal is a song that deals with Gay rights. As Mean Pete says “This is not just someone’s opinion on someone else’s lifestyle, it’s about religion and government sticking their nose where it doesn’t belong.” The ironically titled White Devil is about Pete and other members of the band who grew up broke, stealing to get by. “It’s really about an circle of life that it is difficult to break out of, being born into poverty and how it places a limit of what you can accomplish.” Selma named for the character in the film Dancer In The Dark is about the power that women have that is underestimated every day. Pete comments “We are the most negatively positive band out there. We’re really positive but we present it in a negative way.” With the release of God Saves Us 2006 promises to be the year that mainstream takes notice of the band who live by their underground roots.
The Glutton
Remembering Never Lyrics
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Wasting my air
Blind and ignorant of his guilt and intention
Unintelligent decisions you make
Realize they not only effect you
It will take a million truths to remove one brick
From the wall you have built around yourself again
Your false pride disgusts me, piggy
This tradition ruins your life
This will ruin you
Coward of cowards
Glutton of gluttons
Kill yourself
Glutton=consumer
It will take a million truths to remove one brick
From the wall you have built around yourself again
You and I take a life
"The Glutton" is a song by Remembering Never that seems to criticize the excessive consumer culture that we live in. The lyrics mostly talk about how people blindly consume things without thinking about the consequences of their actions. The song also seems to attribute a sense of guilt to people who engage in consumerism.
The opening line, "The glutton feeds off you and I" can be interpreted in a few ways. This could refer to corporations or the government that profit off of people's consumption. It could also refer to people themselves, who "feed" off of their own overconsumption. The line, "Wasting my air," is a powerful line that suggests that the glutton is wasting the very thing that we all need to survive. It is a potent image that suggests that the glutton is doing harm not just to themselves, but to everyone else around them.
The line "It will take a million truths to remove one brick" is a metaphor for how difficult it is to get people to change their ways. A single truth might not be enough to make someone realize the error of their ways, and it might take many more to have a significant impact. The song ends with a powerful call to action - "Kill yourself." This line can be interpreted in a few ways, but it seems to suggest that if you are a glutton, you are already killing yourself slowly, and that the only way to stop this cycle of overconsumption is to change your ways.
Line by Line Meaning
The glutton feeds off you and I
The consumer takes advantage of both me and you
Wasting my air
The consumer's actions are negatively impacting my environment
Blind and ignorant of his guilt and intention
The consumer is oblivious to the harm they are causing and doesn't feel remorse
Unintelligent decisions you make
The consumer's choices are not well thought out and lack wisdom
Realize they not only effect you
The consumer's actions have a ripple effect and impact others besides themselves
It will take a million truths to remove one brick
Breaking down the consumer's flawed mindset and behavior is a difficult and lengthy process
From the wall you have built around yourself again
The consumer has constructed a personal barrier that prevents them from seeing the truth
Your false pride disgusts me, piggy
The consumer's arrogant attitude and behavior is unappealing and annoys me
Fooled by neanderthal's lies
The consumer is tricked by those who are primitive and not knowledgeable
This tradition ruins your life
The consumer's habit of wasteful consumption is a detriment to their own well-being
This will ruin you
The consumer's harmful behavior will eventually catch up to them and have negative consequences
Coward of cowards
The consumer lacks courage and is the epitome of cowardice
Glutton of gluttons
The consumer takes the concept of excess to a whole other level
Kill yourself
The consumer's behavior is so destructive that it's as if they're killing themselves
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