Memories - The Sleepless Years
Memories are a hardcore band from Birmingham UK formed in July 2012, playing music consisting of heavy groove riffs combined with a mix of tight breakdowns and catchy chorus based melodies. Their debut release 'The Sleepless Years' is available for a free download alongside their very own Justin Bieber cover accompanied by a music video via their YouTube page which has over 9000 views in total.
Apart from the mention of “Just A Beaver” which nearly sent me running in the opposite direction this band do have a certain amount of clout! So off to see them play live at the Lomax this evening and just hope no Beaver fans are about or there will be trouble!
IDGAF
Well certainly a sonic attack as the guitar kicks in and then a mighty fuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkkkkkk – holds a great intensity and enthralling emotion with a sultry thrust of powerful rhythms and grooves, played tight as a duck’s bum. Literally bristles with tempting tones and malevolent passion offering an emotive stance of resistible and uncompromising seduction.
Every Bridge Burnt
Rippling with a mad ambiance and heavy as two ton of metal it surges into a wild existence with nice throaty screams and punishing power ridden guitar. This will fuel your fire! As with most of today’s music it holds a clean vocal accompanied by a guttural growl but perfectly balanced especially on this track with lots of constant attack!
Friends
A high pitched crisp vocal accompanied by a distortion of guitar and bass – quite a mixed up track although it does hold some appeal for instance the guttural secretions that slaughter and maim with sheer delight. The spiteful energy just flows with a barrage of drumming. It also holds some more mellow rhythms in its breakdowns but starting to grow on me.
Decisions
A really mellow start with crisp clean strings building slowly with intrigue and beauty. Creative and diverse, this shows superb change of direction in abundance. A mellow vocal as you would expect, but then the snarling takes over this is a work of extreme art and shows a raw freshness that is most welcome.
Figure Of Speech
Bedlam ensues the snarling growls in abundance are prominent on this track and really ignite the blood to such an invigorating high degree you may spontaneously combust in an array of dazzling energetic fusions of fiery guitar and pummelling drums.
The Sleepless Years Pt.1 (feat. Jim Drummer)
Ripping your spine out from a fist straight through your mouth - a combination of fire and brimstone ushers forth submerging you in a hot sweat with jabbing rhythms and pounding beats. A mellow vocal pipes up not letting the track move to boiling point until the spiteful growl kicks in but the creative little melodies keep it in line but it does not succeed for long as the gnarly growls forcibly attack and instigates a barbed and lustful bitch slap to the unsuspecting listener.
The Sleepless Years Pt.2
More mellow moments leave you in a reflective mood. Swirling ambient strings and a stark drum beat kicks in. Vocally intense as once again the growls come out to venture with their partner of crisp clean vocals and then fade into metal oblivion.
A very creative mix of raw and mellow with finely tuned guitar straddling an edgy drum beat and strong bass hooks. Thrilling and captivating it reaches places you never thought existed and even its mellow moments have something set aside for you to revel in.
Not a bad 6 track E.P at all blatantly coarse with a lot of tease and in certain instances unrestrained.[embed]https://www.youtube.com/embed/yXivw03_uiY[/embed]
Apart from the mention of “Just A Beaver” which nearly sent me running in the opposite direction this band do have a certain amount of clout! So off to see them play live at the Lomax this evening and just hope no Beaver fans are about or there will be trouble!
IDGAF
Well certainly a sonic attack as the guitar kicks in and then a mighty fuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkkkkkk – holds a great intensity and enthralling emotion with a sultry thrust of powerful rhythms and grooves, played tight as a duck’s bum. Literally bristles with tempting tones and malevolent passion offering an emotive stance of resistible and uncompromising seduction.
Every Bridge Burnt
Rippling with a mad ambiance and heavy as two ton of metal it surges into a wild existence with nice throaty screams and punishing power ridden guitar. This will fuel your fire! As with most of today’s music it holds a clean vocal accompanied by a guttural growl but perfectly balanced especially on this track with lots of constant attack!
Friends
A high pitched crisp vocal accompanied by a distortion of guitar and bass – quite a mixed up track although it does hold some appeal for instance the guttural secretions that slaughter and maim with sheer delight. The spiteful energy just flows with a barrage of drumming. It also holds some more mellow rhythms in its breakdowns but starting to grow on me.
Decisions
A really mellow start with crisp clean strings building slowly with intrigue and beauty. Creative and diverse, this shows superb change of direction in abundance. A mellow vocal as you would expect, but then the snarling takes over this is a work of extreme art and shows a raw freshness that is most welcome.
Figure Of Speech
Bedlam ensues the snarling growls in abundance are prominent on this track and really ignite the blood to such an invigorating high degree you may spontaneously combust in an array of dazzling energetic fusions of fiery guitar and pummelling drums.
The Sleepless Years Pt.1 (feat. Jim Drummer)
Ripping your spine out from a fist straight through your mouth - a combination of fire and brimstone ushers forth submerging you in a hot sweat with jabbing rhythms and pounding beats. A mellow vocal pipes up not letting the track move to boiling point until the spiteful growl kicks in but the creative little melodies keep it in line but it does not succeed for long as the gnarly growls forcibly attack and instigates a barbed and lustful bitch slap to the unsuspecting listener.
The Sleepless Years Pt.2
More mellow moments leave you in a reflective mood. Swirling ambient strings and a stark drum beat kicks in. Vocally intense as once again the growls come out to venture with their partner of crisp clean vocals and then fade into metal oblivion.
A very creative mix of raw and mellow with finely tuned guitar straddling an edgy drum beat and strong bass hooks. Thrilling and captivating it reaches places you never thought existed and even its mellow moments have something set aside for you to revel in.
Not a bad 6 track E.P at all blatantly coarse with a lot of tease and in certain instances unrestrained.[embed]https://www.youtube.com/embed/yXivw03_uiY[/embed]
- IDGAF
- Every Bridge Burnt
- Friends
- Decisions
- Figure Of Speech
- The Sleepless Years Pt.1 (feat. Jim Drummer)
- The Sleepless Years Pt.2
Self released
Reviewer: Pagan Hel
Apr 27, 2013
Apr 27, 2013
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