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The Answer have recently opened for AC/DC on a mammoth
tour across America and they are now due to open
for AC/DC as they take their arena tour across the
UK and its pretty damn easy to see why AC/DC have
picked The Answer to open for them and that’s
because they fucking rock and have that big stadium
rock sound that is best heard in the biggest of
stadiums and I don’t think you can get to
play bigger stadiums than what you get to play whilst
supporting AC/DC as after all you can’t really
get a bigger and better band than AC/DC, obviously
it’s down to a matter of opinion but the fact
that they are still releasing albums and touring
after all this time kind of proves it.
Anyway back to The Answer, I first heard them
back in 2006 when they released a number of singles
in the UK, I heard ‘Come follow Me’
and ‘Be What You Want’ but to be honest
wasn’t really that impressed and put them
down as another band who’s trying to make
old skool rock cool again and rip AC/DC off, I
never went on the listen to their debut album
‘Rise’ because of this but I now wish
I did and will check it out shortly.
The second studio album from The Answer is now
out and called ‘Everyday Demons’ and
it is one huge album, it features 11 tracks and
runs for 46 minutes and packs such a big sound,
right from the opening guitar riff of ‘Demon
Eyes’s’ to the last drum beat of ‘Evil
Man’.
The album opens up fast and furious with ‘Demon
Eyes’ which starts off with a great big
guitar riff and Cormac Neeson’s strong sounding
vocals coming in seconds later, the guitar riffs
throughout the song are outstanding seriously
this would even get the old boys with stiff bones
up and moving rocking out to the seriously rocking
melodic beats, the guitar solo towards the end
of the song is breathtaking and guitarist Paul
Mahon deserves respect for his work here.
‘Too Far Gone’ is another straight
out rocking song, but this time around it opens
up with big drum rolls before Cormac Neeson’s
every so distinctive catchy rock vocals come in,
along with some classic rock guitar riffs, the
chorus is extremely catchy with Cormac Neeson
singing “Too far gone, too far gone”
with such passionate energy, if this song doesn’t
get you moving along then there must be something
wrong with you, as even I am finding myself tapping
my foot along and tapping my desk whilst writing
this review.
‘On And On’ is yet another fast rock
song with a huge sing-along chorus that is also
crammed with stunning guitar solos and generally
amazing instrumental work.
‘Cry Out’ is the token slow song,
after three hard hitting powerful rock songs I
think it’s a nice place for a slow song
to come in, the song has a bit of a blues edge
to it and is a really easy listening song that
touches into soft rock.
Things pick up in sound again for ‘Why’d
You Change Your Mind?’, well to be fair
it takes at least a minute as the introduction
to the song is really mellow but when it reaches
its peak and the song fully takes off its totally
worth the wait, but seconds later you find the
song slowing down again and slowly building up
in pace again for another mad assault of rock
noise. The drums beats throughout the heavy parts
of the song just makes me want to take up drumming
or drag out my Guitar Hero World Tour drum kit
and tap along.
I could go on and talk about every song on ‘Everyday
Demon’ but there is really no point as each
song is song strong that I possible can’t
find a bad thing to say about the album or the
songs featured on it, but what I will say is do
yourself a favour and listen to ‘Pride’
as it the song on the album that sticks out the
most. Overall this is defiantly a 5 star release
and I feel that every needs The Answer in their
lives.
Just think of all the great old skool rock bands
like AC/DC, Def Leppard, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith,
Scream etc , well The Answer have the power and
sound to go all the way to be up there with the
these great bands, as long as they keep themselves
cool and continue to release one top notch album
after another.
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Cormac Neeson (Vocals)
Paul Mahon (Guitar)
Michael Waters (Bass)
James Heatley (Drums) |
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1. Demon Eyes
2. Too Far Gone
3. On And On
4. Cry Out
5. Why'd You Change Your Mind
6. Pride
7. Walkin' Mat
8. Dead Of The Night
9. Tonight
10. Comfort Zone
11. Evil Man |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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