Chasing Dragons - Checkmate EP
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| Chasing Dragons - Checkmate |
Leeds heavy rockers Chasing
Dragons are back with a fiver track EP and it couldn't start off in more
ambitious or dramatic style that the filmic and over the top 'Prelude' which,
for my money, ought to be the opening music to the next and much darker than
usual James Bond film. It's on 'Throwing Down Your King' that things start to
really take shape as those chunky speed riffs and horses-hooves drums start
gallop relentlessly onwards. There is a more Guns'n'Roses feel to 'That's Not
Love' as the Slash-esque guitars squeal and snarl for all they're worth and
vocalist Tank slides effortlessly from seductive to threatening.
Now I know not everybody likes
the heavier end of rock music but I defy anyone to resist the joys of the riff
that introduces 'For The Sake Of Murder' which is the perfect counterfoil for
Tank's raunchy rock singing. 'The Last Defence' starts with a gentle,
neo-classical piano riff but soon the drama levels start to build and before
the end we are looking at a full on rock ballad that Queen or Bon Jovi would be
proud of. The EP finishes with arguably the best track, 'Broken Jaws', which
has a soul despite the speed and fury with which the guitars twist, turn and
grind. Chasing Dragons are the kind of band that would have a huge following in
the US if they were from California , for instance,
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Listen/Download: http://www.chasingdragons.co.uk/
Live Dates:
9th July - The MacBeth, London
2nd August - The Shed, Leicester
20th August - The Cockpit, Leeds w/William Control
21st August - Lomax, Liverpool
22nd August - The Club That Rocks, Consett
19th September - The Underworld, London