FURYON – Gravitas

Frontiers 2012 www.frontiers.it

My first encounter with Furyon was way back in the summer of 2010 when Classic Rock magazine gave away a three track sampler. As with most samplers I played it a couple of times thinking that it was pretty good and then promptly forgot about them!! Just over a year later Metal Hammer magazine gave away the full album in the UK. Frontiers have subsequently signed Furyon and the album now gets a worldwide release at the end of March 2012.

Furyon are based in Brighton on the UK’s south coast though based on the sheer quality of this debut album they won’t be there very often…The five lads making this insane racket are Matt Mitchell on the powerful rough around the edge vocals, Chris Green and Pat Heath shredding away on Guitars and , Alex “Nickel” Bowen and Lee Farmery laying down the rhythm on bass and drums respectively.

Gravitas is just sheer quality from start to finish – Furyon deserve to be huge especially across the water in the States where this modern twist on the classic British metal sound developed. To me they sound like a blend of Alter Bridge and Shinedown mixed with classic undertones of post-Ozzy Sabbath, Maiden and Whitesnake.

From the opening of “Disappear Again” to the end of the brooding “Desert Suicide” all of the tracks leave you fully enthralled for close to an hour. The epic “Souvenirs” starts off sounding like the aforementioned Alter Bridge but veers off through a superb solo to ending like something off Sabbath’s underrated “Headless Cross” album.

Furyon have put in the groundwork touring around the clubs of the UK and hopefully this album will push them further up the ladder. Roll on album number two…

****1/2

Phil Berisford

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