Consumed – ‘A Decade Of No’.
Consumed – Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.
Catch our interview with Guitarist Will Burchell prior to release – Here.
Nottinghamshire‘s Consumed are a band that during their initial explosion on to the UK Punk scene quickly became household names. A band that in the fifteen-ish years lapsing between Pistols At Dawn, their return to the live circuit in 2017 and eventual 2018 release – A Decade Of No, were very much one all the younger Punks and underground music addicts would hear of or see written on the grizzled t-shirts of their decade-older contemporaries who they looked up to with keen interest.
Consumed, a band that with said release in the year of Punk-Rock 2018 have achieved something difficult within the realm of “getting back at it”. Consumed are a band still relevant and back at the top of their game, which is something evident within moments of ‘Wake Up Warning’.
The band’s UK-styled Epi-Fat sound bridges both camps perfectly with the melodic across-the-pond sound meeting the urgency of UK Punk-Rock. ‘Wake Up Warning’ is the direct, in-your-face punchy but melodic Punk song purveying a barebones message. – ‘This is your wake up warning, we could be gone by morning’.
‘Devil’s Chords’ follows a more contemporary Skate Punk line showing a band knowing their own craft as much as they do their surroundings. Crunching metallic guitars edge their way in as best they can versus the dominant classic Punk rhythms and tempos sent flying by pummelling drums and rumbling bass-strings. ‘Devil’s Chords’ leaves you considering it the best on this new EP, as you enjoy the uneven dichotomy but dichotomy nonetheless from the Metal-inclined sound, a sound that leads you to the down-tempo of ‘Obscene Like Beverly Dean’, itself a track with an interesting story I’m sure.
‘And Anyone Who Knows Me’ is very much vintage Consumed with a new gloss. And that is no criticism mind, for track four is brutally honest and in bitter distaste in such British Punk tradition that it really wouldn’t work any other way.
And then we come to the lead single that started it all off back in May. ‘What Would Cliff Burton Do?’ was and is a statement in sound. Consumed proudly bust their former glory from stasis and filter it though fast, harmonic melodic Skate Punk, really benefiting from Wes Wasley’s more vocal role on the record with harmonics easily competing with the best of scene. ‘What Would Cliff Burton Do?’ simultaneously represents the band’s heaviest tendencies, their most melodic sensibilities and relentless pace yet, which in itself is no surprise that it was chosen as their comeback belter.
A Decade Of No follows it’s fast ones with mid-tempo tracks equal to the energy of their faster predecessors. ‘Cut Me Down’ is the grower on the release. At first you’re unsure but the more the lyricisms hit home and the more Will Burchell’s melodic leads infect your ears you find yourself back within the “but what is the best track” conundrum as the EP ends.
In truth, there has been an awful lot of unambiguous and unequivocal use of the word “no” in the past decade, but A Decade Of No however is a resounding yes and is out now via Umlaut Records (UK) and SBAM (EU).
Find Them:
- Social Media/Updates: Facebook.
- Music: bandcamp, Spotify, Google Play, iTunes/Apple Music.
- Umlaut Records: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Official Website.
- SBAM: Facebook, Official Website.
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