The cover of the release of Our Gang's Dark Oath by Victory Records in Europe and North America
Our Gangs Dark Oath is the debut studio album released by post-hardcore band Aiden on June 1, 2004. Originally, the album was only available in North America, but it was recently re-released in Europe and again by Victory Records.
"I Set My Friends on Fire" (A quotation from the movie The Ring is featured in this song)
3:06
4.
"Pledge Resistance"
2:51
5.
"Bridge of Reason, Shore of Faith" (A part of the movie Stand by Me can be heard at the beginning of this track)
3:06
6.
"Life I Left Behind"
3:03
7.
"Looking Glass Eyes"
2:45
8.
"Fifteen"
2:37
9.
"Kid Becomes the Dream"
2:24
10.
"Cold December"
3:30
11.
"World by Storm (A part of the movie The Boondock Saints can be heard at the beginning of this track)"
18:00
Background, music and lyrics
Our Gangs Dark Oath is a post-hardcore album with elements of punk rock and sometimes screamo.[2] The album's style is similar to the band AFI, with lyrics being about singer Wil Francis' history of drug abuse and struggles from being on his own by his mid-teen years and leaving jail (Francis was in his early 20s when Our Gangs Dark Oath was recorded).[2] Francis got kicked out of school in 8th grade and never went to high school.[3] Francis said during Aiden's early years, he was angry at the world but later stopped caring about it.[4]
World by Storm
The beginning of "World by Storm" contains a sound clip from the courtroom scene of Boondock Saints.
Also, this song contains two segments of silence along with two hidden tracks. "World by Storm" ends at 3:50 followed by silence until 8:00. Then an untitled hidden track begins, a track which contains nothing but a piano. The "Piano Track" plays in regular time until 10:30, at which point the song fades out for just a second and exactly the same song begins playing in reverse. This plays until 13:00.
At this point, the song ends and another segment of silence begins. This silence ends at 15:10 and another untitled hidden track begins: this one containing acoustic guitar and the lead singer's voice. This track leads to the end of the song and album. The breakdown of "World by Storm" is as follows:
AllMusic gave the album a neutral review, writing, "Aiden offer up a competent, if not slightly generic, dose of post-hardcore with a dark punk edge" and noting that "the group sounds more like the younger cousins of My Chemical Romance or AFI who just happened to be weaned in a screamo scene."[2]
