Lock up your daughters and hide the car keys - because here come Suns Of Thunder, driving a rock and roll juggernaut through your town with scant regard for speed limits or noise pollution. The Gimme Some More EP is four raw tracks of sleazy low-slung groove-powered rock music that wouldn’t sound out of place at an amateur monster-truck meeting.
If you want to talk ancestry and genetics here, you’re going to need to head across the Atlantic and spend some time digging around in the deep South tradition of sludgy and powerful blues-metal, before heading further West and scouring the dry empty bits of California for the footprints of the desert rockers. Suns Of Thunder make a rich brash noise that we’ve come to associate with the wide open spaces of America – which is all the more surprising when you consider the fact they’re from Newport, Wales.
You’d be hard pressed to tell at a first listen, and probably a second or third as well. Wrap your ears around vast grimy riffs and thunderous drumming, blues-scale solos, sleazy Hammond keys and a hint of amped-up saxophone – it’s like waking up from a whiskey coma in a roadhouse bar full of Hell’s Angels looking for the guy who knocked their bikes over. Sons Of Thunder aren’t just aping this sound, they’ve climbed inside it like a second skin and made it their own.
The Gimme Some More EP is dirty like the flat-bed of a redneck’s pick-up, and just as likely to plough through the wall of your favourite drinking pit. If you’ve grown tired of whiny pseudopunk and overproduced technical metal, hitch a ride with Suns Of Thunder. They probably won’t tell you where they’re headed – hell, they probably don’t even know - but once the whiskey kicks in you won’t care a damn. Great stuff.
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