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Last Updated on 04:40 PM by Lilliana Tseka
Genre: Hard Rock, Rock ‘n’ Roll
Country: USA
Label: Blood and Iron Records
Three words can summon the spirit of “Girl Named Misery”: Badass tunes and whiskey.
Listening to the record, the emotion created is equivalent to the one motorbike movies create. You’ve all seen that classic scene with a biker in his Harley driving through a golden valley into the unknown (of course a couple of misty and alcohol-reeking bars seem to be more likely the case, to be honest). That’s it. This is the ideal soundtrack for such a scene. This is “Girl Named Misery”. Cardiac Noose, a hard rock band from Albany, New York has set as a goal to corrupt our livers with its alcoholic, biker themed, hard rock / rock ‘n’ roll record.
The record is consisted of twelve tracks, which, although they’re moving towards classic structures and compositions, however, they manage to set your mood and make you smile with satisfaction. Let’s take a more specific look… The “Girl Named Misery” album opens with “Tomb of the Warrior”, a strong and orienteering track, smoothly introducing you to the band’s themes and general attitude. “Dead In Your Lies” comes up next. Tracks like this can urge the girls of your gang to dance lasciviously around your table, especially in the slower parts of the song, so keep a sublingual blood – pressure pill in your pocket or set 911 on speed dial just to be sure. Emotional, biographical (perhaps autobiographical, who knows?) “Get Back Home” follows, describing our hero’s return home after an adventurous travel with this motor. “I’ve been riding all my life just to get back home”, Wayne “The Beast” Grippin narrates, while Eric “Ike” Baestlein travels us with his blues-hard rock uplifting rhythm. “Rock ‘n’ Roller” is just what the title says. A very nice Rock ‘n’ Roll song with a beautiful solo and a bass that stands out. The vicissitudes of everyday life, the misery of routine and the will to escape from reality are the themes unfolded in (JudasPriest-ish) “A Girl Named Misery”. Speed is lowered in “Lonely Man”, a nice ballad (theoretically) you could to rejoice while speeding with your car in a National Road, with your window lowered so that everyone can hear your incredibly out of tune and rhythm voice while you sing-along and dedicate the track to yourself, while at the same time the wind sweeps your manly tears. The not-so-special “Thrill of it All” and “Fallen” tracks follow next. The “American Outlaws” obviously reek of American scent. You can catch it even in the way the track sounds. “911” has happier and more uplifting rhythms, with a characteristic refrain that’s easily hummed. Then we have “Long Way From Gone” and “The Road to Megiddo”, which seals the album. It’s a nice, warm track, with beautiful guitars and a rhythm ideal to complete Cardiac Noose’s third record.
Cardiac Noose is a really charming group, and even if they don’t acquire an extreme technique, excessively ornate solos, vocal lines that will send you to heaven or a machine gun drummer, it’s a band that loves what it does. The passion for their music and for the general phase they’re into are evident in every note and balance, and in some places even delete, what I said at the beginning of the paragraph. Judging by the emotional state the band members are into and the passion they show on the videos uploaded on YouTube, I believe they’re worth watching, while enjoying a bottle of whiskey. I hope at some point to be able to see them perform live. Those who have already seen them live in faraway America, I truly envy you.
4/6
Highlights: Dead In Your Lies, Rock ‘n’ Roller, Lonely Man
