Lumbering, low-slung bass, sinewy guitars and shouty vocals? Yup. Explosive riffage? Hell yeah. Stop / start, choppy dynamics? And then some! Neither indie nor metal, their sound harks back to 90s grunge but has a clear contemporary twist.
‘Crush’ is a belting guitar driven rock-out, but with a clear – and hooky – chorus, and ‘Falling Down’ owes a clear debt to Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, but don’t for a second think that’s to say Kill Chaos are some second-rate rip-off merchants: they’ve just done their research and have listened to – and been inspired by – some classic records (probably from their older brothers’ or even their parents’ CD collection).
The heavy stomp of ‘Got a New Drug’ sounds more like a cross between Queens of the Stone age and Biffy Clyro, and again, balances accessibility with blazing guitars, and is driven by sincerity and passion. ‘We Came Here to Die’ reminds me of another song – or several other songs simultaneously – I can’t quite place. I should be angry about that, but they sound angrier, and distil it into a grunge rock behemoth that’s hard to fault.
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Punk-pop ‘Satellites’ is the album’s weakest track by far, but the monumental chug and squeal of single release ‘OK on the O.K.’ more than compensates, and again the guitar-driven firepower really makes it better than OK. A true barnstormer that more than delivers on its promises as well as its threats.
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