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I have just come across Famous, despite their debut
album ‘All The Wicked’ being released
back in 2005 on Burning Records, the album features
9 tracks and is such a strong sounding album with
all 9 tracks being really listenable, you can clearly
tell that these guys are influenced by your general
rock bands like Seether, Staind, Finger Eleven and
even Nickleback as their music is so similar in
so many different ways.
The album starts off with ‘Black Hole’,
and wow what a start it is, the song runs well into
the 6minute mark and its packed with everything
that makes a good rock song, it has a nice long
instrumental introduction which sounds like something
that could of been lifted from a Coheed And Cambria
song and then the meaty sounding guitar riffs slowly
come in and then build up to a really bouncy hooky
song, then front man Ben Phillips vocals come and
he seriously has a great set of vocals , they are
strong, rocking and pretty damn melodic when he
wants to be, towards the end of the song there is
an immense guitar solo which I am sure the bands
fans have their fingers crossed hoping the song
will make it onto guitar hero one day as it has
guitar hero written all over it.
The album title track ‘All The Wicked’
is another huge sounding song, front man Ben Phillips
vocals shine throughout the whole song, he has a
great set of vocals and can change his vocal style
slightly like he does throughout the song the add
a bit of variety and extra excitement to the band’s
sound.
During the chorus of ‘Today I’m Gonna
Kill The World’, you start to feel that Kurt
Cobain is back from the dead, as Ben Phillips vocals
go down the Kurt Cobain grunge route, overall the
song is another really strong sounding rock and
roll track.
The most different sounding song on the album is
‘Take Me Out’ the song has a real radio
friendly feel about it, it’s extremely catchy,
very bouncy and Ben Phillips lets his hair down
a bit as he goes on an extremely infectious journey
with his vocals, in fact you would be forgiven for
thinking it was a totally different band playing
this song as it’s so different from anything
else on the album, if anything is going to get these
guys air play and a bigger fan base then this song
has the most potential.
It’s not all about being catchy and rocking
out for famous as you can tell when you listen to
the last track on the album ‘Give Me Your
Soul’ it’s a really slow paced acoustic
track, that doesn’t have much variety all
the way through but doesn’t disappoint at
the same time.
‘All The Wicked’ is defiantly a 5 star
rating album, it’s got everything that a classic
rock album should have it may be 4 years old now
but you wouldn’t think that by the high quality
of the songs on there. Famous are currently working
on new material and I have managed to check out
three of their new songs and have to say I can’t
wait for the album as the songs are more of the
same formula but sound more polished and more stadium
rock than before especially during ‘Going
To A Funeral’.
If you are into your true rock bands, you know the
bands classed as rock instead of all this sub genre
stuff that’s about these days with people
saying they are metal core/punk or whatever then
you will really love famous, they sound as good
as all the major American straight up rock bands
the only difference is they don’t have the
same big following as other bands, but hopefully
that will change when people catch onto them.
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Ben Phillips (Guitar, vocals)
Mark Damon (Bass Vocals)
Jamie Perkins (Drums) |
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1. Black Hole
2. All The Wicked
3. Today I'm Gonna Kill The World
4. Heaven Will Come
5. Waiting In Hell
6. Take Me Out
7. What She Doesn't Know
8. Only 15
9. Give Me Your Soul |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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