Hard-Wired Other Review
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Open The Skies, a Surrey-based band, describe themselves as 'melodic, post-hardcore screamo'. The opening track of this CD definitely fits that bill. They would not find themselves contravening the Trade Descriptions Act. Yes, and there's lots of growly, Napalm Death-style grawking (is that a word? Well, it is now.)
The second track, "Keiko's Last Smile" features more of this feral grawking (where's David Attenborough when you need him eh?) I just wish I could decipher the lyrics and this is always the problem I have with heavy-rawk sounds, risking sounding like an old Mary Whitehouse type. I just can't make out the words, or has old age affected my hearing so much that I need a hearing aid? I hope not otherwise I'm in trouble. It has a definite Kerrang! quality, they probably wouldn't get any trouble having a market in the European hard-rock sector where there's definitely a demand for this sort of thing. The last track "A Silent Decade", sounds like anything but but then I could just be getting old...
It's not bad it does what it says on the tin, but it just ain't my bag. But if hard core rawk makes your world swing, then it could well be yours. Has potential. |
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