Album Review

Hopeless Heroic - Become The MonsterHopeless Heroic – Become The Monster

Hopeless Heroic have spent the past two years of their life creating their debut full length album ‘Become The Monster’ and after listening to the album for the first time you can clearly tell that the time spent on the album has truly paid off as ‘Become the Monster’ is a killer album which has a big mixed sound of rock, punk, ska, rap and seriously kicks some arse.

The album opens with ‘Death Whisperers’ which starts up with some classical violin piece and as the song progresses the band come in one by one with catchy vocals, crunching guitar riffs, bouncy basslines, banging drum beats and ends up morphing into an extremely memorable song with a big tub-thumping edge.

‘Brasco’ opens with some stunning instrumental pieces which really see the band come together and go all out showing what they can do, as soon as the vocals come in at the 45 second mark the song transforms into a hard hitting rock track with a big catchy bouncy edge.

‘The Only Enemy That Ever Mattered’ opens up with vocalist Gavin Bain coming at you like an 200mph tornado with his fast effective vocals, as the song progresses it becomes better and better with the raw emotions running throughout and the hard hitting instrumental work ticking ever box.

‘Great Days For The Young Sinners’ sees the band tone things down and it is a beautiful listen which is welcomed because despite things being toned down you can still tell that the band have put everything into the song and come up with a vocally amazing chill out track.

As soon as ‘Great Days For The Young Sinners’ ends the album goes back to the bands classic hard hitting style with songs like ‘Almost Dead Famous’, ‘The Getaway’, ‘Michelle’, ‘Like Father Like Son’ all featuring enough variety and mayhem to send you into a mad frenzy.

Throughout the album vocalist Gavin Bain shows off various different vocal styles but it is the second mellow track on the album ‘Cried Wolf’ where Bain really shines with his vocals soaring over the violin and guitar sounds.

Hopeless Heroic are influenced by many great bands from Billy Talent, Enter Shikari, Rage Against The Machine etc and they have managed to take these influences and add in their own elements and come up with a sound and debut album that is unlike anything else around at the moment and for a debut album ‘Become The Monster’ is totally faultless there is not a negative moment insight and the epic instrumental climax of the album is truly breathtaking giving out the sound of a key scene in a blockbuster movie.

5/5

Review by Trigger

 Band Members

Gavin Bains
Rob Bayley
Scott Masson
Tony Sabberton
Dai Knight
 Track Listing
1. Death Whispers
2. Brasco
3. The Only Enemy That Ever Mattered
4. Great Days For Young Sinners
5. Almost Dead Famous
6. The Getaway
7. Michelle
8. Like Father Like Son
9. Cried Wolf
10. Wake Up & Smell The Coffin
 Band Related Links
Hopeless Heroic Facebook
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?