CD Review: Game Rebellion – Sounds Like A Riot
February 14th, 2010 Filed under: Reviews - Music by admin
CD Review – Game Rebellion
Sounds Like A Riot
Molotov Music
You could easily dub Game Rebellion as one of the “Leaders of The New School of Rapcore”, not the ephemeral version (Korn, Limp Bizkit,) but more of a nod to the old Judgment Night soundtrack era when you could enjoy an old Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. track laced with guitar or Onyx and Biohazard pairing up for an elbow-throwing circle pit of beats and blood. Although this modern day version may have some pre-conceived elements of Rage Against the Machine on lead single “Blind”, the band ventures into keyboard-squealing, radio-friendly territory with tracks like “Blood” and “Dance Girl”.
This addition to the Afro-Punk movement may have intended on tapping into the hipster scene in Brooklyn and beyond with the aforementioned tracks, we think they should have stuck with the sheer, raw power of songs like “2012” and “Rebel”. Regardless of the formula, the musicianship is impeccable, the lyricism is brilliant and judging from their live show via web clips this bunch simply kills it live. Hopefully they’ll trek through Canada soon.
Formed in Brooklyn, NY in 2006, the bands cites their influences as “Prince, The Cure, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Bad Brains, Johnny Cash, Megadeth and Guns & Roses to name a few” according to their bio. Granted there is nothing wrong with branching out and reaching in the “new audience cookie jar” with the more synthy, dance songs that appear on this EP, but we could only wish that they keep it more like their incredible masterpiece of a shit-hot-motherfucker-of-a-mixtape ‘Searching for Rick Rubin’ which plays in the ABORT office almost daily.
Maybe some of those types of tracks should shine through a little more and toss in some more hardcore hip-hop that has been blanketed in a crispy, guitar-crunch coating, baked at 450 degrees and served piping hot. We’ll take a bite of that. Hopefully they will avoid the Black Keys-style BlakRoc and go all Onyx-style Black Rock and keep it heavy, funky, beefy and beaty.
Less Game, more Rebellion. That’s what the people want.
By E.S. Day
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