At last, the time has finally come for Five Knuckle to release their second album. This is their first album for 2 years so of course the band have improved a lot in this time period through constant gigging and hard work. ‘Lost For Words, Far From Speechless’ was a good album but it did of course have its errors – this however does not! Five Knuckle have always been one of my favourite bands with their tremendous hardcore. There aren’t enough bands making hardcore in the UK but Five Knuckle make up for this fact by being extra specially talented.
This album has all you could possibly ask for – heavy riffage, strong bass lines, pummelling drum beats, and some seriously unstoppable, raw as hell vocals that make Five Knuckle who they are. Without these defining vocals the band may not stand out as much as they do as vocalist Dan is an extremely talented man with a fine eye for amazing lyrics, and vocals that although sounding raw – always seem to have their own hidden melody and flow so well. One of my favourite tracks on this CD has to be ‘Lost In Thought.’ This track is immensely powerful and I feel is one of the best tracks that the band has ever written. The guitars and bass are spot on – Shaun is drumming like a mad man, and the vocals have a distinctly hardcore sound that will really get your juices flowing. The band really do the whole hardcore thing at the highest possible standard – they have been at this game for a good while now so they are really at a very high level and can push out track after track of pure genius. This is the reason that they are one of my favourite bands – they never seem to make a bad tune and I’m sure that if they ever did it would quickly be scrapped. The band are persistently terrific and never fail to impress with their cracking hardcore stance – the way their tunes seem to pump out of the speaker never fails to impress me and puts a smile on my face every single time. Every single one of the twelve tracks on this CD is everything you ever expected from the band and more as they evolve from the debut album, and put in an album with a much harder edge.
No matter how much you love this band – I don’t reckon that anyone ever expected the album to be this much better than the first one. When it first came out two years ago I felt that there were next to no flaws at all and that they would never find a way to improve on it, but now I can understand that the band were nowhere near their peak at the time and still had a lot more left to come. You have to love this album – it is absolute hardcore gold and to not like it would have to be a criminal offence. I reckon that even the most un-hardcore of people could possibly be converted by the strength of this album as it is really that good – this one will be remembered for years to come. I won’t be forgetting this album in a hurry, or indeed taking it out of my CD changer for a good while yet.
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UK based film graduate with a huge passion for music, sports and video games.
