Heaven's Basement Places a Can't Lose Hard Rock Bet

Like a battering ram, the UK's Heaven's Basement pulverizes sensitive eardrums with a smartly layered hard rock assault that's catnip for Old School metal masses and New School neophytes who can either began or enhance their education on the subject right here. "Nothing Left To Lose" is executed urgently, as if the foursome really did have everything to lose. Methodically lead vocalist Aaron Buchanan, lead guitarist Sid Glover, bass guitarist Rob 'Bones' Ellershaw and drummer Chris Rivers strut their way down the razor thin line separating rational thought from core meltdown. You'll spend many an hour taken in by the two fisted result. Alienation shouts out begging to be heard. Everything about the guitar's Spandex tight evolution nails the silent scream ethos down to the last anguished cry for acknowledgement. Sid ups the ante on the scale of hoodlum menace, his instrument echoing the defiance Aaron wails about. The exhausting trip along rusted razor blades pauses only long enough for Aaron to emphasize how very not wanted we the disillusioned are on this orb since we...you know...don't get to rent the real estate indefinitely. Vulture drown us out. Silence closes in, thick blackness the only ally we have left. Chalk one up to Heaven's Basement for keeping the torch of chip on the shoulder hard rock impressively lit. This foursome knows its purpose. They're not above bobbing and weaving through the guitarist's bag of tricks either. To hear Aaron tell the tale defiance is pretty friggin' noble. Even though the odds are deeply stacked against us, even though we've always been and always will be playing with house money we're brazen enough to spit in the universe's face anyway. Taste the saliva drifting from his agitated bottom lip. Succumb to Sid's electrifying guitar showmanship. Surrender full on to Chris's pectoral flexing choice of strokes behind the kit. The whole life is pointless since it's impermanent schtick is worth swallowing one more time simply because these messengers clearly have their game faces on. Spookiness ensues from the image (or lack therein) of nightmares follow not being able to open one's eyes. Makes that whole impermanence thing come into deceptively vivid technicolor. You've likely never seen anything like it which is exactly how these lads love to serve it up. It's been a shade over a year since the release of "Filthy Empire" the full length album where you'll find "Nothing Left To Lose". Fingers crossed Heaven's Basement's following grows exponentially. "Nothing Left To Lose" allows us to gain a reminder that hard rock with the gas tank locked and loaded still exists in 21st century music.