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Zebrahead are such a hard working band, they seem
to release a new album every couple of years and
seem to tour solidly when they are not busy releasing
new albums and they are not shy when it comes to
touring the UK as it seems like the band never leave
the UK as when they head over they spend a good
month at a time touring the small toilet sized venues
in the UK punk rock circuit and you can guarantee
within 6 months of one tour in the UK Zebrahead
will be back for another equally long tour, they
are 100% about playing punk rock and pleasing their
fans and that’s one of the factors that make
Zebrahead such a good band as they are clearly in
the music business for the right reasons unlike
some money grabbing big shot American bands.
So the new Zebrahead album is here and it is
called 'Phoenix', the album is 16 tracks long
and runs for just under an hour, you are probably
wondering what it sounds like, well to be honest
it’s no different than any other Zebrahead
album, it’s fast paced poppy punk that’s
as infectious as anything else you would of heard
from Zebrahead in the past, this is something
I really respect Zebrahead for, they know the
style of music they like to play and the style
of music their fans like to listen to and they
stick true to it and each album sticks the same
sound formula unlike some bands who spend years
between albums progressing their sound far away
from how they started before realising its not
working and reverting back to their original sound,
I say if you have it don’t fuck about just
stick to it.
The lead single release from the new Zebrahead
album is a song called 'Mental Health', and it’s
pretty easy to see why the band have chosen to
release this as the lead single to promote the
album, it’s a fast paced infectious punk
rock tune, the duel vocals are fast and have a
mixed feel of punk rock mixed with rap rock, the
guitar riffs are thick, fast and as bouncy as
you could ever imagine poppy punk to be, the drumming
also sounds really infectious with sticksman Ed
Udhus constantly bashing the shit out of his drums.
I challenge anyone to listen to 'Phoenix' and
try and find a song within the 16 tracks on the
album that doesn’t ooze with fast infectious
punk rock energy, it’s pretty impossible
as the whole album is so fast and each song will
have you tapping your foot along or even better
bouncing off the walls in your bedroom as you
listen to Zebrahead's perfect slice of pop-punk
at full volume.
It’s hard to pick out a favourite track
from 'Phoenix' as they are all of a high quality
but what I will say is that the first two tracks
'HMP' and 'Hell Yeah!' are simply amazing and
sets the pace for the rest of the album. 'HMP'
opens straight away with the bands well known
duel vocals that mixes shouty rap style vocals
with more fast and furious punk vocals. 'Hell
Yeah!' is just a storming song, the chorus is
fast, infectious and quite shouty.
Fans of Zebrahead are going to be more than pleased
with the result of the bands sixth studio album,
it’s got more than enough tracks, runs for
a good length of time and is as strong sounding
as any previous Zebrahead release. It’s
pretty much guaranteed that Zebrahead will be
in the UK soon touring their arses off to promote
the release of 'Phoenix'.
4/5
Review by Trigger |
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Ali Tabatabaee (vocals)
Greg Bergdorf (guitar)
Ben Osmundson (bass)
Ed Udhus (drums)
Matty Lewism (vocals, guitar ) |
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1. Morse Code For Dummies
2. Hell Yeah
3. Ignite
4. Mental Health
5. The Juggernauts
6. Hmp
7. Death By Disco
8. Be Carefule What You Wish For
9. Drugs
10. Just The Tip
11. Brixton
12. Hit The Ground
13. Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right But, Three Rights
Make A Left
14. All For None And None For All
15. Sorry But Your Friends Are Hot
16. Junkie And The Halo |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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