Talk:My Life Denial

As a kid of 12 years old, just recently exposed to the wonderful world of the Louisville underground music scene it was about my third show when I was introduced to My Life Denial. Until then I was only interested in Metallica and everything metal. Needless to say, the raw and beautiful, unhibited expression of emotion and what probably everyone around their teen years was experiencing that came through their music affected me in a way that could only be described if one was there to witness the magnificent performances that graced their stage. I had never heard anything like what was bestowed upon my ears.

  As I found that Marty lived 2 streets over from me I rode my bike to their band practice every week just to be witness to such greatness. The lives they have affected, they couldn't even probably comprehend. I became their bitch boy and roadie and loved every minute of it; and looking back I definitely consider it some of the best years of my life to have been in the presence of such good human beings in general. 
 As a student of Johnson Middle School I knew Rob Pennington as Mr. Pennington, and because of My Life Denial I was introduced to a whole new scene and way of thinking that was completely foreign yet familiar to me. Because of them I knew about Endpoint and By Then Grace of God, and because of them I believe that they carried on the spirit of what Louisville music was about. Unfortunately, just as the new millenium came, and all of the "emo" "screamo" whatever you want to label it now hardcore/metalcore started to become "cool", My Life Denial split ways, tragically. I, personally, believe if they would have just hung in there for a little while longer they could have helped to reshape and re-define what Louisville music AND what all of this follow the leader bullshit coming around lately could have been. They were something different, distinctive, on their own, but with the spirit of what the Louisville underground music, the heart of what it used to be about, was. If only....the definition of Louisville music would have been forever changed if they had stayed together and been given the acknowledgment they deserved.