50 Lions / Record notes
50 Lions — Time Is the Enemy: record background
50 Lions’ debut album Time Is the Enemy arrived through Resist Records in 2007, following the Byron Bay band’s earlier seven-inch and EP releases.
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New background on a historical PyroMusic page. The original article text is not reproduced.
50 Lions and Resist Records
Resist Records identifies Time Is the Enemy as 50 Lions’ debut album, released in 2007. Its artist biography places the band’s beginnings in Byron Bay in 2005 and describes the earlier seven-inch and EP releases that preceded the album. [1]
The label’s announcement on 1 May 2007 scheduled Time Is the Enemy for stores on 28 July, following Nowhere to Run. It also announced 50 Lions’ forthcoming dates with Comeback Kid. These details place the release in the band’s early Australian hardcore touring period. [2]
The historical PyroMusic review
The surviving original review is signed Spiritech and carries a score of 6. It discusses the band’s terse hardcore songs, its youthful energy and the balance between familiar genre forms and individual character. This is a summary of the historical reviewer’s assessment, with the original rating identified as such. [3]
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Exact original review publication date.
