Savage Beat Review

Out in Issue 82 of The Underground Sound in late February.  The Sound is always @ http://rockfest.org/sound  if you want your stuff reviewed, send to ugr.geo@yahoo.com  subject: Music Reviews A list of past reviews can be see @ rockfest.org/reviews.html

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Savage Beat - The Singles 2018 - 2022

Spanning four years of greatness, the set kicks off with New World, a hard hitting rocker anyone who came up from decades long gone remembering the music and great times from afar can relate to. It's hard to pen Savage Beat as any kind of retro band outside of the music they play recalls legendary blues based hard rock that has been with us since rock n roll began. The band has kin in other legends not forgotten in the Underground such as The Weasels or Playmates Of The Year (fellow country men from Amsterdam), both bands you hear here as if members of the band.

Savage beat powers up the attack blasting through heavy hitters Killing Time & Trapped. Then ripping through the bar crawl classic All The Bars in Town before landing solid on Always Dreaming. The song again calls upon how things felt when you were young. As the years meld into time frames looking back upon the time when nothing could stop you, for a few brief minutes you feel that drive again.  Strong rock n roll can do that, and Savage Beat delivers it here.

Social conscious shows up a time or two to be quickly knocked down in favor of slam dancing as the world burns. Mob Rule comes out of that scene, and by this time does it really matter? A theme touched on a few times throughout the album, which is, just fuck it all and crank up the jam!

This is followed up by burning the book while tearing up the town on Paper Dolls. Yet that's what you do, as album closer Living In The City brings home. Closing out an era 2018-2022 when Savage Beat had the attention that asked were they to be the new thing? As they rock on more in demand than ever, they remain the  royalty they were from day one.

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