Category: Vinyl Reviews (Page 5 of 492)

It’s quite hard to believe that a band as good and consistent as Heat are unknown to a lot of people in rock music. I have friends that are just picking up on them eight albums in. They are shamelessly a celebration of rock in the 80’s, but written in the now. And why not, when it’s done as well as this and there is obviously still a market for great melodic rock.

Main man Joan Tee lets his harder side out with bands like New Horizon and Crowne respectively, but I’m guessing Heat is his main squeeze. The album title is somewhat ironic. The music on offer here has its roots in the mid eighties, the songs are very well written and executed, and they have a formula that works. There’s no denying that they are great musicians.

Favourite track I hear you cry? Well, that goes to Tear It Down (R.N.R.R). It’s a great song that reminds me a bit of Tony Martin era Sabs. It’s a killer, good old mid tempo stomper with a great hook and chorus that is just a tad different from the rest of the record. Along with fellow Swedes W.E.T and Eclipse, they have cornered the market somewhat, but we all know Sweden is the best all things music.

8.5/10 from The Grooveman,

Album number three from one of today’s most original metal bands. If you don’t know already, they combine traditional Indian music, with Nu Metal grooves, and Meshuggah style crunch. Lots of traditional language lyrics mixed with some English does not spoil the experience for me, in fact it adds to the impact . Ask yourself does that matter when listening to Rammstein?

There is tons of programming here, which usually is a big turn off for me when it’s used to artificially create music, but when it’s used as an accompaniment like this then I’m all for it. It’s the crushing down low riffs and pounding grooves that flick my button the most though, and the collaboration with Babymetal. Bekhauf is next level cool. They save the best till last as the title track Nu Delhi is a blast of old and new that works perfectly with both crunch and groove.

They are most certainly a breath of fresh air and if you have an open mind then give it a spin.

9/10 from The Grooveman.