Single Review
the Blackout - Hard SlammingThe Blackout - Hard Slamming/High Tide single

The Blackout are a six-piece screamo band from Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. The band have played many small shows across the country as well as some huge shows supporting the Lostprophets at Brixton Academy and also playing at Give It A Name festival at London’s Earls Court and Manchester Evening News Arena, which has made the band a tighter touring band who are happy to play to any crowd size.

'Hard Slamming' is the bands first ever release and is a pretty good single. The drumming is constant, the guitars are fast, the vocals are very screamo and sounds pretty similar to Bert McCracken from The Used at certain moments. The track also features lots of slow stop and start moments, which work pretty well. 'High Tide' is an acoustic song and is nice and mellow, the vocals are stunning and it shows this band can do mellow moments as well as rocking out hard.

Overall this is a good single release and its a nice mixture having a hardcore screamo song and an acoustic song on the release as it shows two different sides to the band, I think there six track mini album will be worth checking out as well when it is released on the 18th September 2006.

3/5

Review by Trigger
 Band Members
The Blackout - Band
Sean Smith (Vocals)
Gavin Butler (Vocals)
Matthew Davies (Lead guitar)
James Davies (Guitar)
Rhys Lewis (Bass)
Gareth Lawrence (Drums)
 Track Listing
1. Hard Slamming
2. Hard tide
 Band Related Links
The Blackout Myspace
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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