Shotgun Revolution – IV
Release Date: 5th January 2021
Label: Self-released
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Genre: Heavy Rock, Post Grunge.
FFO: Alter Bridge, Black Stone Cherry, Shinedown, Queensryche.
Review By: Paul Franklin
As the title suggests this is Shotgun Revolution’s fourth album, but only the second to be released outside of their native Denmark. In terms of the music, it is also their heaviest and probably the most consistent.
The band have spent a good portion of their years together on the road, touring the globe in support of big name acts like Slash and Black Stone Cherry, in fact one of the tracks from their previous album was co-written with the latter. All this experience means that IV sounds like a band settled and comfortable in the sound and style that they have developed for themselves.
Positioning themselves firmly in post-grunge, heavy rock territory, Shotgun Revolution do wear their influences proudly and prominently on their sleeves, but it would do them a disservice to suggest that they are mere sound-alikes.
Sure, if you are a fan of the genre (and in particular the bands listed above) you will hear elements in the songs that sound familiar, in some of the riffs and especially the vocals, but there is also that distinctive Scandinavian flavour going on, and without doubt the quality of the tracks and the performances are consistently high throughout.
Personal stand outs are the demonic grooves of Café Of The Dammned (where you just know they are drinking builder’s tea from cracked mugs!), the vigorous Enter The Fire, and rumbling bass and staccato riffs of Silent Torture. But to be honest, I don’t think they drop the ball at any point across the album’s thirty-six-minute running time. Ten tracks of melodic heavy rock tightly packed and flexing with muscularity.
(4 / 5)
