Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – Dark Rainbow (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 27, 2024 · Comments off

Frank Carter’s breakthrough came as the energetic frontman of the nihilistic hardcore punk band Gallows. He left the band in 2011 to pursue a much more positive approach with his next project, Pure Love. This was also reflected in the sound of their only album “Anthems”, which had clear influences from classic rock and power pop.

The Brit founded Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes together with guitarist Dean Richardson in 2015 to find the perfect middle ground between these two approaches. The energy and directness of hardcore on the one hand, melody and emotion on the other.

With their fifth album “Dark Rainbow”, the band succeeds in this endeavor amazingly perfectly. The songs convince with audibly mature songwriting and even more personal lyrics than before. Musically, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes now allow whatever they like. The framework is still timeless punk rock. In order to cover the necessary spectrum of emotions and energies, however, strings, piano or synthesizers are sometimes used.

This courage for variety suits “Dark Rainbow” perfectly. The album’s sound, which spans epochs and genres, is sometimes even reminiscent of the desert rock of Queens Of The Stone Age.

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Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – Sticky (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 5, 2023 · Comments off

Sticky, the new album from Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes, is the sonic eruption of a year-plus of suppressed energy. While it’s an escapist experience, recent reality is never too far away. It’s there in ‘Go Get A Tattoo’, which was inspired by Carter’s experience of having to shut his first London based tattoo parlour, Rose of Mercy, almost immediately after it opened. It’s just as present in ‘My Town’, a suburban vignette of society’s collective mental health quickly unravelling.

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