Review: Bulldog Courage - "From Heartache to Hatred"
While there aren't any photos of the dapper young gents of Bulldog Courage in the liner notes of this album, it’s probably safe to say they’re not the kind of folks you’d want to encounter in a poorly lit alleyway. Of course, that’s only based on the testosterone-filled anthems that comprise From Heartache to Hatred, but it’s hard to imagine a more telling testament than what’s heard here. For the most part, Bulldog Courage seem to come from the Blood for Blood school of hardcore that is by nature heavy, machismo, and certainly not straight-edge. Strangely though, there are some rather endearing tracks on this record, and rather than gloss over exactly what makes this album good and what makes it bad, I’m resorting to the ol’ Amazon.com individual song breakdown system, beloved by amateur critics everywhere. “Where I've Been”: A fairly trite but not horrible beginning to the album; the chorus of this paint-by-numbers hardcore is “I don’t know where I’m going / I sure know where...