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Fast paced punk rock has always been a favourite
of mine, you just can’t beat those fast paced
punk style guitar riffs, bouncy bass lines and fast
flowing melodic vocals with big shouty backing vocals,
in my eyes that’s what punk rock is all about
and no matter how many new bands come out caring
more about image and including as much electronics
and synths into their there will always be bands
who stick to the basics and stick to the straight
forward punk rock formula and rock out because they
love to rock out and Washington based punks Worst
Off are one of those solid sounding bands who combine
metal style riffs with the punk rock flow and vocals.
The band’s latest three track EP is called
‘Burning Bridges’ and it is crammed
with 3 fast as fuck kick arse tracks that you
will find yourself listening to on repeat to get
the most out of the awesome sound these guys have
created within the tracks.
The opening track of the EP is ‘Beauty
Of Flaw’, and the band start as they mean
to go on with a really powerful set of fast and
furious guitar riffs, Drew’s vocals soon
come in and take you on a hundred mile per hour
journey as his fast melodic vocal style draws
you in, the shouty backing vocals really add variety
to the song and works well alongside the more
melodic vocals of Drew, the overall pace and feel
of the song can’t be faulted, it will leave
you either tapping along or bouncing off your
walls depending on how you react to a fast catchy
tune, this is how melodic punk rock should be.
The instrumental opening of ‘Fleeting Distance’
reminds me of one of the more mellow songs that
Blink 182 did back in the day, this runs for about
a minute and then DJ has a battle with his drum
kit creating a big constant drum beat before the
dual guitar assault comes in full of speed and
rhythm, this song is more about how good the band
are instrumentally as it takes well over 2minutes
for the vocals to come in, but that doesn’t
matter as instrumental Worst Off are very strong,
I would be happy listening to a full length instrumental
track by these guys and I doubt that I would get
bored. Anyway when the vocals come in the song
takes a slight Bad Religion, Pennywise route and
believe me it’s well worth a listen, once
the infectious chorus is in your head it will
take you days to shake it off, not that you would
want to anyway.
The final track on the EP is ‘How Far’,
the guitar work here is by far the best out of
all the song songs on the EP, in fact it is so
good it might just make you piss your pants with
excitement, the riffs have Guitar Hero written
all over them.
You may not of heard of Worst Off until now,
but seriously these guys are a band that you need
in your life, they can’t be faulted at all,
everything from the instrumental work to the vocals
is top stuff, It’s now time for you to wash
off your spray on jeans, give your sister her
eyeliner back and get your hair cut back into
shape and rock out with a true punk rock band.
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Drew (Vocals, Guitar)
Jimmy (Guitar)
Jeremy (Bass)
DJ (Drums) |
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Beauty Of Flaw
2. Fleeting Distance
3. How Far |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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