{"id":807,"date":"2011-02-14T14:40:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T20:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/?p=807"},"modified":"2011-02-14T14:40:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T20:40:42","slug":"imperium-by-grammatrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/imperium-by-grammatrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperium by Grammatrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-808\" title=\"grammatrain-imperium\" src=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2011\/02\/grammatrain-imperium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2011\/02\/grammatrain-imperium.jpg 350w, https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2011\/02\/grammatrain-imperium-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2011\/02\/grammatrain-imperium-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Grammatrain returns with their first full album in years.\u00a0 They still sound like Grammatrain \u2013 no attempts have been made to adopt a new style.\u00a0 That\u2019s not to say this is a re-hash of their first two albums.\u00a0 There is definitely a good amount of growth when comparing these songs to older material.\u00a0 To me, the songs seem to be a bit more plodding than in the past \u2013 fewer borderline punk songs than on <em>Flying<\/em> or <em>Lonely House<\/em>.\u00a0 Not that this is a bad thing \u2013 they still have some great riffs going on here.\u00a0 The spiritual dynamic is also interesting, as lead singer Pete Stewart recently said he is no longer a Christian, but tries to write songs that would not offend the Roraback brothers.<\/p>\n[2010 Independent | Purchase: <a href=\"http:\/\/grammatrain.net\" target=\"_blank\">Grammatrain.net<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grammatrain returns with their first full album in years.\u00a0 They still sound like Grammatrain \u2013 no attempts have been made to adopt a new style.\u00a0 That\u2019s not to say this is a re-hash of their first two albums.\u00a0 There is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/imperium-by-grammatrain\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[93,24],"tags":[137,98],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-january-2011","category-music-review","tag-grammatrain","tag-independent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","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=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}