EP Review

Sondura - You Remain EPSondura – You Remain EP

Sondura is normally the sort of name you would associate with either the power metal or progressive metal genres due to how it sounds and looks but apparently they are neither of these; evidentially they are a rock act, based in our cities capital of London. These guys seem pretty young and lately when young guys enter the game of breaking out within rock music they have to commercialise their stuff somewhere down the line as to actually gain any sort of following, let’s take a look see then as to whether or not Sondura will join this long list of sell outs.
What I’m hearing is the last thing I would have expected to be these guys style, mesh of clean and lightly distorted guitar tones drifting from melodic to thick and chunky riffs as displayed in opener “Your Remain”, this alongside the powerful vocals make this mix ideal. The opening track then has fully captured my attention and following track “New Beginnings” reminds me of Alterbridge mixed with Shinedown and 3 Doors Down, a cocktail of mainstream American rock music but with a British twist then! “Live Before You Die” is an upbeat little number reminiscent heavily of early Alterbridge with the tone, don’t get me wrong this is nowhere near as quick and technical as Mr Mark Tremonti’s legendary riffs but it’s an extreme likeness.

Don’t get me wrong I’m not going to sit here and sing their praises all day because they do have a long way to go, however this start to their career you can see room for maturity and musical growth but hell for an EP I’ve been extremely impressed and taken aback by what they’ve produced. Think of it as more of an advertisement of things to come, there are 5 unique tracks spreading out and displaying the parameters of what their style can do, like I said with maturity they will hone in on the best qualities and bang out some cracking albums, have faith.

4/5

Review by James Webb

 Band Members

Tom Watson
Jack Watson
Stevie D
Freddie Green
 Track Listing
1. You Remain
2. New Beginnings
3. Live Before You Die
4. Falling Free
5. Black And White
 Band Related Links
Sondura Facebook
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?