This is the debut album by Riot|Noise. It's been crowd funded through Pledge music which means the band's fan base believed in them enough to chip in and help them make what is a good solid debut album of modern rock. I hesitate to call it metal as there are no growled or screamed vocals and while it might be heavy it is much more rock than metal.
It is heavy enough, but nothing jumped out at me on the first 4 songs, it was just decent background rock. But then Dead Behind The Eyes came on and that one does jump out at me, coming on like a slightly bastardized take on The Heart Attacks' Running With A Gang but with grungier sounding guitars.
We'll Bring You Down, which follows it, is another of the songs well worth hearing. Good crunching guitars and angry and venomous lyrics such as "Don't want to see your face again, you're an atrocity" gives the distinct impression of the hate when things go wrong. If you've just been dumped this may well be a good song to vent spleen to.
Choices again has good lyrics about the last chance choices to be made and seems to be about someone on the verge of O'Ding or checking out way too soon. The wall of guitars builds with the angst in the lyrics of hoping to get someone back from the brink and reminds me a bit of Dear Superstar.
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Save This is a little bit slower than the rest of the tunes. Again, it has plenty of anger and hurt in the lyrics trying to get a partner to not fall into a trap (or is it addiction?) and to pull back from the brink. The lyrics are really good and I'd like to hear this song re-mixed giving them more emphasis as while it sounds decent as it it, this has real potential that I'm not sure is realized on this version.
They are out on tour in the UK in May and may well be worth seeing live. All the details can be found at:
Riot/ Noise Facebook page
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