Review: DK Limb – “Defy Define Definition”

This southern Florida quintet feels like it’s aiming to create energetic and densely layered pop-punk but instead ends up churning out that familiar brand of chart-conscious nu-metal (or whatever you’d like to call it) native to your radio dial.

Dueling guitarists Ryan Alvarado and Nick Ziros weave together some interesting verses, from time to time mimicking Tool or Boysetsfire, but it’s easy to file away a band hammering out choruses of “All we are is dead and buried/ Don’t want to let it go” as just more of the same. – Punk Planet, November/December 2006

About the author

Justin Vellucci is a staff writer for PopMatters, Spectrum Culture, and MusicTAP, a contributor to Pittsburgh Current, and a former staffer for Popdose, Punk Planet and Delusions of Adequacy. His music writing has appeared in national magazines such as American Songwriter, alt-pubs like The Brooklyn Rail, Pittsburgh CityPaper and San Diego CityBeat, blogs Swordfish, Punksburgh and Linoleum, and the Gannett magazine Jetty. He lives in Pittsburgh.