Here's To The Heroes - American Lights/Have Faith In Me

Super Easter Blog Saturday continues apace with a two for the price of one offering from me, your genial host, thegeneral.

So for my second offering of non-chocolatey Easter goodness (I'm drinking a cup of tea now and not even remotely considering chocolate. No. Not me. No sirree Bob). We're actually going righhhht over to the other side of the world to feature a brilliant band from the USA called Here's To The Heroes.

Again, the guys very kindly contacted me and asked if I'd give their new video offering a bit of a plug on the old blog, which I'm very happy to do indeed. However, I thought it would also be nice to bring their last EP to your attention too, while I did so.

First of all, as always with me, here are the necessaries.

Here is the group's bandcamp page:

herestotheheroes.bandcamp.com/

Here's their Facebookz:

facebook.com/htthband?_rdr

Here's their Twitterz

twitter.com/HTTHohio

So firstly, here's a bit of something on their last EP - "American Lights" which you can find by following this linkage:

herestotheheroes.bandcamp.com/album/american-lights-2

I have to say, this is an absolute corker of an EP. The guys have a fantastic, raw and energetic sound which is breathtaking in it's speed. The opening track "American Lights" is a total joy and leads nicely into the very pacy "After The Rain" - wonderfully harmonic guitars and vocals are present throughout this whole collection of songs - and the nice thing about them is that although they're fast paced and frenetic, they know just when to slow everything down and control the pace to stop it becoming too "one note". I've been lucky enough to review some cracking albums/songs just recently and this is up there with them and a must own for anyone who wants some charged, pacy rock in their collection over the Spring months.

And now here's the link to their sublime cover of "Have Faith In Me"

This is just lovely. It's faithful enough to the original, but equally beautiful in it's own right and the band have put their own spin on the guitars and vocals to make it sound like it could be one of their own original songs. Well worth adding to your long weekend playlist. (**Gargoyle features, if you're reading this...look at the lyrics and believe them**). 

So, there you go - another excellent band to get your teeth into this Easter weekend. Go on, you know you want to...