Year : 2024
Style : Hard Rock , Alternative Rock
Country : New Zealand
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 103 mb
Bio:
Black Smoke Trigger is a hard rock/alternative rock band from Napier, New Zealand, founded in 2018. They released their first EP Set It Off in 2019. The band takes influences from acts such as Audioslave, Alice in Chains and Guns N' Roses. Black Smoke Trigger is managed by US artist manager Andy Gould, (Spectacle Entertainment Group) who has also handled the careers of Rob Zombie, Pantera, Linkin Park, Lionel Richie, and Guns N' Roses.Black Smoke Trigger's debut EP, Set It Off, was recorded with German producer Michael Wagener in Nashville, Tennessee.The band performed with Like a Storm for a NZ wide tour celebrating 10 years of Devilskin in October 2019.They have since performed with Halestorm and toured Australia with US industrial rockers Filter.In November 2019, Black Smoke Trigger released a new song featuring Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars, titled "The Way I'm Wired".Set It Off has landed in the Billboard charts, taking #13 Heatseekers Albums, #46 Rock Album Sales, #6 Heatseekers - South Atlantic, and #43 Independent Album Sales, in the first week of release.
Album:
A new name to many, Black Smoke Trigger burst into the UK in May when they joined Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson on his solo tour. Playing to 3000 plus people a night is a great way to establish a new fan base, and ever since Black Smoke Trigger shirts have been a constant sight on the live music scene.To back up their introduction to the British audience, this week they release their debut album ‘Horizons’, a record that will set those foundations the New Zealanders started building earlier in the year.What is delivered with ‘Horizons’ is a dynamic modern rock album. Taking inspiration from that classic rock feel, but layering it with sounds, concepts, an aura that makes it something else.From the genteel introduction to ‘Phantom Pain’ it rumbles into a modern American feeling rock classic akin to Alter Bridge, Creed and the like. From here the pace picks up into the rush of energy that is ‘K.M.T.L.’ and the fist pumping banger that is ‘The Way Down’, which reminds me a little of Those Damn Crows.The band manage to vary pace, musical ideas and emotion throughout the record which results in an enthralling listen that you can never get bored of. ‘Perfect Torture’ introduces acoustic elements to a classic rock tune that builds in power perfectly whilst ‘Set Me on Fire’ returns to the fast paced onslaught the band touched on prior.‘Horizons’ as an album is not ground breaking, very few things are these days. But what Black Smoke Trigger have done is build upon a classic sound to produce a unique album that will stand the test of time. Having already experienced them live we now eagerly await their return.
Line Up:
Baldrick – vocals
Charlie Wallace – guitar
Dan Fulton – bass
Josh Te Maro – drums
Tracklist:
01. Phantom Pain
02. K.M.T.L
03. The Way Down
04. Perfect Torture
05. Proof of Life
06. Learn to Crawl
07. Set Me on Fire
08. Psycho
09. One More Chance (Don’t Let It Slip Away)
10. Never Dies
11. Sun Cries Red
12. Promise
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