{"id":1527,"date":"2012-12-11T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T21:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2012-12-11T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T21:14:30","slug":"rogue-anthem-what-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/rogue-anthem-what-to-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogue Anthem &#8211; What To Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1528\" title=\"Rogue Anthem - What To Believe - Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2012\/12\/Rogue-Anthem-What-To-Believe-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" \/>\u201cRogue Anthem was founded by Myke Augustat to carry a message to the forgotten and the underdog.\u201d Unfortunately, Augustat passed away in July of this year. <em>What To Believe<\/em> is a tribute CD to help benefit Augustat\u2019s family, with all proceeds going to Augustat\u2019s wife and children. What a great tribute it is: fast and furious punk rock that seems to touch on some crossover in many places. At times I hear a distinct influence from The Crucified\u2026 but maybe that is just the fanboy in me. That is certainly a good influence to hear. \u201cNeedle Down\u201d brings in some harmonica and piano to the instrumental mix for a bit of groovy stomp. The mix is a bit muddy at times (hey \u2013 this is punk after all!), but not to the point of hurting your ears. Lyrically, the press release sums it up best: \u201craw punk rock that combats the garbage fed to us on a daily basis through the media and other sources that claim to be promoting the welfare of mankind, all the while destroying the true image of what it means to be Human.\u201d<\/p>\n[2012 Thumper Punk Records | Purchase: <a href=\"http:\/\/thumperpunkrecords.storenvy.com\" target=\"_blank\">thumperpunkrecords.storenvy.com<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRogue Anthem was founded by Myke Augustat to carry a message to the forgotten and the underdog.\u201d Unfortunately, Augustat passed away in July of this year. What To Believe is a tribute CD to help benefit Augustat\u2019s family, with all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/rogue-anthem-what-to-believe\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[304,24],"tags":[317,232],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-january-2013","category-music-review","tag-rogue-anthem","tag-thumper-punk-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}