Niki N. Phaser

The thing with Dead by Sunrise is that you can either listen to it as Chester Benington’s side-project and compare it to Linkin Park, you can also listen to it as Julien-K without Ryan Shuck on vocals, or you can clear your mind of all these faces and names and enjoy a new rock band. And, truth be told, it’s not at all difficult to enjoy Dead by Sunrise’s debut album, Out of the Ashes. The overall feeling you get from this first studio effort by these guys, is that you are listening to some classic rock’n'roll album, something old school, but still alive and kicking. Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell is the first thing that comes to mind, but Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet is not too far either. I’m not entering sound issues when mentioning these albums. I’m just trying to say that Out of the Ashes has everything you would want from a rock album. It might not become your favourite, but you will respect it.

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First of all, this is not any form of news, it is just a public bet I made with myself. Just for laughs. It’s just that Kasabian’s first single off of West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, by the name of Fire (which contributed to them having the second consecutive charttoper album in UK) would fit perfectly on a Guy Ritchie brit-gangsta movie. Maybe the psychedelic-heist video has a lot to do with it, but the song would surely fit on an action sequence or a parallel montage Ritchie-style. I doubt that there will be any Kasabian on Sherlock Holmes (2009) the up-and-coming flick, starring Robert Downey Jr., but the end of RocknRolla did promise a sequel. Remember ?