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Shoot E.P.

      
         
         
         
     
             
American Head Charge are a heavy industrial rock band from the USA formed in 1996, releasing to date three albums - 'Trepanation' (1999), 'The War Of Art' (2001), and 'The Feeding' (2005) - and one E.P. 'Shoot'...    
             
...emerging in 2013, featuring five songs that span the genres of heavy rock, industrial, alternative, and Grunge. The opening song 'Writhe', is a wander through an intricate acoustic melody and vocals that send a shiver down your spine, American Head Charge slowly building a tension fuelled atmosphere ready for 'Writhe' to display a little melody before boom! And the band turn 'Writhe' into a heavy frenetic stomp with growled vocals.    
             
Slamming listeners with a brutality not heard on the opening gambit, 'Set Yourself On Fire' strides in with a menacing attitude and scary vocals, the spines of every listener retaining the shiver from 'Writhe'. And with a dramatic change in aural intensity, 'Sugars Of Someday' takes on a foot tapping, catchy riff laden aura, offering a more heavy metal feel than heard so far - American Head Charge displaying very broad musical horizons!    
             
'Sand' has a dark, almost demonic intro, proceeding to deliver dramatic changes in tempo and feel with vocals that swing from clean to growled - and back again! The band are at their most diverse here, oozing every style of rock and metal the American outfit have in their locker. The fifth and final song on offer is a hard rocking cover of the Patti Smith song 'Rock 'N' Roll Nigger' (off Smith's 1978 album 'Easter'). American Head Charge modernise it with regards to musical delivery, keeping to the lyrics and attitude of the original.    
             
Overall, an impressive, if short, collection of songs that pound the senses with heavy guitars and growled vocals.    
             
             
Review by Iron Mathew Collins    
             
Reviewed for Stampede Press UK    
             
             
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