To The Bones – Emperor’s Ride Single
Tracklisting
- Emperor’s Ride
- Magazine
Being said to ‘rock like an absolute motherfucker’ by Rocksound Magazine and obtaining good
reviews from various other sources, I had exceptionally high hopes for To The Bones’ new single ‘Emperor’s Ride’. The track gets off to a good start with
catchy bass rhythms that forebode a good, energetic tune worthy of Queens Of The Stone Age… but then, as
they say, some things are too good to be true. Just when it sounded as if I was
about to be blown away by brilliant vocals and fist-pounding choruses, vocalist
Rhys G. Bradley squeals down the microphone and crushes any hopes that ‘Emperor’s
Ride’ would be a good song. The drumming is brilliant and the guitars are
perfectly competent but both are heavily overshadowed by the wailing and
yowling that has the potential to summon neighbouring dogs and shatter a few
windows in the process.
The second track from the single,
‘Magazine’, is only a minimal improvement from the headline track and is, once
again, completely ravaged by the shrieks and bawls of the vocalist in an
otherwise extremely talented band. Although howling and screeching may appeal
to some of their Facebook fans, how these vocals managed to impress the likes
of Kerrang! and Rocksound is a complete mystery.
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