{"id":77793,"date":"2019-04-10T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=77793"},"modified":"2023-04-07T14:23:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T13:23:28","slug":"review-scream-blue-murder-rock-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-scream-blue-murder-rock-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Scream Blue Murder \u2013 Rock Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-77794\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Scream-Blue-Murder-Rock-Bottom-Album-Cover-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Scream-Blue-Murder-Rock-Bottom-Album-Cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Scream-Blue-Murder-Rock-Bottom-Album-Cover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Scream-Blue-Murder-Rock-Bottom-Album-Cover-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Scream-Blue-Murder-Rock-Bottom-Album-Cover-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Scream-Blue-Murder-Rock-Bottom-Album-Cover-30x30.jpg 30w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Scream-Blue-Murder-Rock-Bottom-Album-Cover-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Scream-Blue-Murder-Rock-Bottom-Album-Cover-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Scream-Blue-Murder-Rock-Bottom-Album-Cover-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Scream-Blue-Murder-Rock-Bottom-Album-Cover-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Scream-Blue-Murder-Rock-Bottom-Album-Cover.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>While other metalcore bands were straightening their hair, squeezing into skinnies and ripping-off Architects, Coventry\u2019s <strong>Scream Blue Murder<\/strong> were hammering out riffs and winning over crowds. Debut album \u2018<em>Hollow Stories<\/em>\u2019 arrived in 2016 and since then they\u2019ve kept up their work ethic, even touring the USA. Not bad for an underground band. New album \u2018<em>Rock Bottom<\/em>\u2019 solidifies their sound and, while it\u2019s unlikely to break them into the mainstream, it\u2019s a remarkably assured beast.<\/p>\n<p>While they can\u2019t hide their love for a great big metal-flavoured lick, much of the album leans heavily on the melodic hardcore part of their sound. Big choruses abound, particularly on \u2018<em>Friends Like Judas<\/em>\u2019 with its nicely excited gang chants and\u00a0\u2018<em>The Void<\/em>\u2019, which might open with a hard aggressive vocal but shows off the band at their best with a hook bordering on pop-punk.<\/p>\n<p>The album\u2019s real strength is the way it progresses along its runtime. By playing on different elements, no two songs sound exactly alike. So, while \u2018<em>The Anchor<\/em>\u2019 see-saws between crushingly heavy and helplessly catchy, \u2018<em>Victims Of Violence<\/em>\u2019 just powers straight through. It\u2019s becoming increasingly popular to build a song around synths but \u2018<em>Rock Bottom<\/em>\u2019 is an interesting take and makes it one of the album\u2019s highlights.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Scream Blue Murder - Light It Up (Official Music Video)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ZiHsJJmkus?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Aaron Bloomer doesn\u2019t have the greatest singing voice but, like his bandmates, he uses different ideas to make his point and, for the most part, plays to his strengths. If there\u2019s a drawback, it\u2019s that the choruses repeat themselves a little too often. It works well on the fist-pumping \u2018<em>Light It Up<\/em>\u2019 but on \u2018<em>Death Sentence<\/em>\u2019 it quickly gets tired.<\/p>\n<p>The overall sound is fairly grubby, so if you\u2019re looking for something slick and modern, this isn\u2019t it, but it does fit with the album\u2019s hardcore elements. Being a metalcore band, they do feel the need to throw in a couple of production tricks on \u2018<em>Over The Line<\/em>\u2019 which cheapens the experience but doesn\u2019t undermine what is a solid, enjoyable record.<\/p>\n<p>3\/5<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Rock Bottom&#8217;<\/em> by <strong>Scream Blue Murder<\/strong> is released on 12th April on<strong> Stay Sick Recordings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scream Blue Murder<\/strong> links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Facebook.com\/sbmmetal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SBMmetal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/Instagram.com\/sbmofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Ian Kenworthy (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhisperingSand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WhisperingSand<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8216;Rock Bottom&#8217; solidifies Scream Blue Murder&#8217;s sound and is a remarkably assured beast.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":77794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[15621,2500,16850,16813,16851],"class_list":["post-77793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-ian-kenworthy","tag-review","tag-rock-bottom","tag-scream-blue-murder","tag-stay-sick-recordings"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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