BATTERING RAM mit neuem Album "Second To None"
With their first full length release, BATTERING RAM unabashed smashed in the doors to the rock scene. Their self- titled debut album unleashed in 2020 was welcomed with numerous positive reviews in music industry magazines such as Sweden Rock Magazine, Metal Temple and Roppongi Rocks.
And now the Filipstad quartet is back with a new batch of killer songs. The eagerly awaited “Second To None” lives up to Battering Ram's high-profile raised by their debut album and delivers a collection of songs that are playbooks of what hard rock and heavy metal should sound like when they clash: raw, heavy and with gigantic hooks!
This band stands for everything that old-school rock music once was about. The band is both in sound and quality close to the genre’s heavyweights with its origins in the 1970s and 80s. While the solid base of Battering Ram’s sound is genuine and authentic, they still seal their music with their own modern signature.
“Second To None” is out today on digital, CD and LP (transparent red vinyl, limited to 300 units) via UPRISING! Records.
Battering Ram comes from a small Swedish mining town - Filipstad. A place you never heard of, a place you’ve never been to and a place you most likely will never visit. Up there north, in the Scandinavian woods, man is still man, life is still easy, and souls are still free. Up there music still rock. Hard. Hard as a rock.
This heavy-weight quartet founded in 2017 in the deepest forests of Sweden quickly arouse great interest among rock fans home in Scandinavia, as well as on the international ground. Rockers all over the world have realized that there are some heavy pieces of steel casted among gnomes and trolls in the Nordic fairy tale woodlands.
Hard as a rock and harder than hard rock. Heavy as lead but nor just metal. Still, at the end what Battering Ram plays is a plain straightforward rock n’ roll with a lot of weight, power and attitude.
Lineup:
Tony Trust - drums
Joakim “Jocke” Ståhl - bass
Jonas Edmark - guitars
Johan Hallström - vocals
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"Second To None" tracklist:
01. What I’ve Become
02. Too Late
03. Ram You Down
04. Pieces
05. Hold On
06. Down
07. Coming Home
08. Rage
09. Battering Ram
“Maybe the album should come out with a warning imprinted: Highly addictive!” Calles Rock Corner 6/6
“The battering ram has crushed all asunder!” Powerplay Magazine 9/10
“Clenched fists, attitude and a really thick bold production” Metalized Magazine 9/10
“An album that really appeals to me” Scream Magazine 5/6
“A canon song that ends up on repeat and which is played so loud that the windows vibrate” Rockfarbror (SE) 5/5
“A must for fans of very powerful hard rock with a metal edge” Musika 86/100
“All this speaks for high quality” Saiten Kult 8/10
“A more than successful disc that celebrates classic Rock/Metal sound with a slightly modern touch” Hellfire Magazin 8/10
“”Second To None“ convinces all along the line with great hooks in a driving and cool heavy rock mix” Metal-heads.de 8/10
“Heavier than hard rock, but not quite as hard as heavy metal. BATTERING RAM - yes! That fits” Stormbringer 4/5
“The guitar sound is almost as overpowered as Mustasch, so heavy is really a key word” Sweden Rock Magazine
“Catchy melodies and sing-along choruses” Rock Hard Magazine
“Unadulterated hard rock” Rock Tribune
“A confident and stringent sophomore album” Fireworks Magazine
“Lets it crack and groove with force” Rock It! Magazine
“Straight to the best of the year list” A Ilha do Metal
“Everything works well in this record” Classix Magazine
“The tracks not only stick faster, grenades like 'Ram You Down', 'Coming Home', or the eponymous final anthem burn directly and without detours in the long-term memory” Powermetal.de
BATTERING RAM "Too Late" (official video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3q6AjgeMis
Quelle: Uprising! Records