Hailing from Caen in France, Headcharger produces a brand of rock music combining elements of metal and hardcore into the mix. The music is energetic, the guitar riffs are hard hitting and not once on this album does the band ever fail to impress with this fine rock sound. A definite hardcore influence can be heard running through the very heart of this release, the stomp that the band possesses is reminiscent of many a successful hardcore band and the music is resultantly greatly hard hitting and always this band seems to hit all the right notes with the music.
Eleven tracks are contained within this ‘Watch The Sun’ release, never is the music anything short of sensational as Headcharger crash and smash through this highly charged powerful rock display. It’s hard, impossible even to tie this band down to just one genre given the diversity of sounds that is here produced. With each and every track the band has something slightly different to offer, whatever the sound is however always it is highly entertaining and hugely impressive to listen to. Metallic guitar licks are spattered all over this album, the hardcore pace and power of the drums can often be heard, and never quite do you know where the vocals will go next. The vocal range here truly is impressive, so many different sounds emerge from the mouth of front man Seb. Shooting from sublimely sung to raucously shouted, it would seem that there is very little that this talented front man cannot do.
Such hardcore ferocity can on this album he heard, right from the offset you know that hardcore runs right through the veins of this band but as the album unveils itself the power of this band just seems to get greater and greater. Never does this album cease to impress me, always Headcharger possess great energy as a band and this energy has here been exhibited on a truly fine album display that is ‘Watch the Sun’. Not once does the power seem to lessen in the slightest, it remains at a constant throughout the entirety of this album and always the music of Headcharger is seemingly supersonically charged.
The instrumental talent of this band truly is phenomenal, the guitars chug through tracks such as ‘Get Naked’ and ‘You Wanna Dance You Gotta Pay The Band’, the drum beats are relentlessly furious, the vocals are unpredictably excellent, and at no point in this album does this fine French band ever show a single sign of weakness. Having supported bands such as Agnostic Front, Throwdown and The Exploited, I feel that any paying crowd would be highly impressed with the fine music that this band produces. The sound of Headcharger will not only appeal to fans of metal, but those of the hardcore scene also as the music is a fine cross breed of the two. The music has the edge of metal, the passion of rock n roll, and the brutality of the hardcore genre all encased within this hard hitting, highly impressive sound.
For those that like their music hard and heavy the sound of Headcharger should definitely be of great appeal. From start to finish this ‘Watch The Sun’ album is an excellent attack of music, to pin this band down to just one genre though would just be absolutely criminal. So much goes on within the sound of Headcharger, there is plenty to take in from the music and not once will you ever feel at all disappointed throughout the albums progression. As the ‘Watch The Sun’ album reaches a close you feel a great sense of upset, never do you want this album to stop and always you are left wanting for more. Headcharger is an excellent French band, ‘Watch The Sun’ is only the second album to have been released by this band but I have a sneaking suspicion that there will be plenty more to come from this supreme French force. The music is here played to perfection by all five members of this Headcharger band, it will be extremely difficult to top this album in terms of quality but I’d like to see the band try. Headcharger could perhaps be considered as France’s finest import, the music is magnificent and I for one am incredibly impressed by this super second album.
Label: Customcore Records
Release Date: 27th September 2007
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