Our Gangs Dark Oath

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Our Gangs Dark Oath
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 1, 2004
RecordedJanuary 2004
Genre Post-hardcore
Length44:56
Label Dead Teenager
Producer Steve Carter
Aiden chronology
A Split of Nightmares
(2004)
Our Gangs Dark Oath
(2004)
Nightmare Anatomy
(2005)

Our Gangs Dark Oath is the debut studio album by post-hardcore band Aiden. The album was released on June 1, 2004. Originally, the album was only available in North America, but it was recently re-released in Europe and again by Victory Records.

Contents

"Our Gang's Dark Oath" is also the name of the second chapter of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain. [1]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Our Gang's Dark Oath"1:04
2."The Dawn Breaking Tide"2:30
3."I Set My Friends on Fire" (A quotation from the movie The Ring is featured in this song)3:06
4."Pledge Resistance"2:51
5."Bridge of Reason, Shore of Faith" (A part of the movie Stand by Me can be heard at the beginning of this track)3:06
6."Life I Left Behind"3:03
7."Looking Glass Eyes"2:45
8."Fifteen"2:37
9."Kid Becomes the Dream"2:24
10."Cold December"3:30
11."World by Storm (A part of the movie The Boondock Saints can be heard at the beginning of this track)"18:00
Total length:44:56

Background, music and lyrics

Our Gangs Dark Oath is a post-hardcore album with elements of punk rock and sometimes screamo. [2] The album's style is similar to the band AFI, with lyrics being about singer Wil Francis' history of drug abuse and struggles from being on his own by his mid-teen years and leaving jail (Francis was in his early 20s when Our Gangs Dark Oath was recorded). [2] Francis got kicked out of school in 8th grade and never went to high school. [3] Francis said during Aiden's early years, he was angry at the world but later stopped caring about it. [4]

World by Storm

The beginning of "World by Storm" contains a sound clip from the courtroom scene of Boondock Saints .

Also, this song contains two segments of silence along with two hidden tracks. "World by Storm" ends at 3:50 followed by silence until 8:00. Then an untitled hidden track begins, a track which contains nothing but a piano. The "Piano Track" plays in regular time until 10:30, at which point the song fades out for just a second and exactly the same song begins playing in reverse. This plays until 13:00.

At this point, the song ends and another segment of silence begins. This silence ends at 15:10 and another untitled hidden track begins: this one containing acoustic guitar and the lead singer's voice. This track leads to the end of the song and album. The breakdown of "World by Storm" is as follows:

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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AllMusic gave the album a neutral review, writing, "Aiden offer up a competent, if not slightly generic, dose of post-hardcore with a dark punk edge" and noting that "the group sounds more like the younger cousins of My Chemical Romance or AFI who just happened to be weaned in a screamo scene." [2]

Chart positions

ChartPosition
Top Independent Albums32
Top Heatseekers Albums30

Personnel

Aiden
Production

References

  1. Griffiths, Mark. Kerrang! #1261, May 16, 2009. Treasure Chest. An Intimate Portrait Of Life In Rock. wiL Francis, p. 58
  2. 1 2 3 4 Apar, Corey. "Our Gangs Dark Oath - Aiden : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards : AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  3. "Rock Eyez - Interview with wiL Francis- Vocals - Aiden 2009".
  4. "UTG INTERVIEW: William Control | Under the Gun Review".