Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Eagle Riders

Eagle Riders is a hard rock band from Hyderabad. Their Reverbnation also adds a tag saying Power Metal. But considering Power Metal generally has optimistic lyrics, and their one song is called "Depression, Anger, Pain", I'm just going to go ahead and reject the claim of being Power Metal, but they still pretty badass.



Please find attached a photo of them below:


They don't have a Facebook page, so it's really tough for me to say which is which, so I'm just going to try guess members from left to right now:

Praveen - Lead vocals and guitars
Vijay Anand - Bass and backing vocals
Bobby - Drums and backing vocals
Sunil - Lead guitars and backing vocals

Hopefully, I got it right. If not, YOU, the reader, have full power to correct me. Anyway, moving on to business, and as mentioned earlier, they have the one song:

1.) Depression, Anger, Pain
It may sound kinda emo, and I guess the lyrics even are kinda emo, but the music is absolutely nothing like mopy or emo in any way. It starts off with a very, very catchy riff. You could almost call the riff 'badass', which is exactly the opposite of emo, you know? This badassery continues for a minute, when the vocals kick in. Doesn't take a step back because of the singing though, continues to be badass, despite the fact that the lyrics aren't really so badass at all. A solo starts off from 3:15, pretty nice solo, rather soulful, half a minute long too, that's good. Song fake-ends about 45 seconds before the ending, and about three seconds later starts up super badassly till the end. If you thought the opening riff was badass, try this section, it has the opening riff with double bassing and constant crashing on cymbals. Fucking good way to end a song.



Who will like it? Anyone who likes guitar riffs. Actually pretty much everyone
Who will not like it? People who exclusively listen to growling I guess, and people who don't appreciate emo-ness, but I don't see anybody else not liking this.
Where to find it? Reverbnation
Free Download? Yeah!!
Lyrics? No, but that's good I think, the lyrics might put me off the song.

They've recently made a Facebook page, as pointed out by a reader. Thanks for the update. Link's been added.




1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Tanmay, they have a FBP. its this.......
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Eagle-Riders/173948565976646