Black Sabbath, Nine Inch Nails, Motorhead, Warrior Soul, The Police, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, Sex Pistols, Slayer.
Sounds Like
"Genuine hard rock, has a primal power all of it’s own and it’s something that Hate Gallery know more than a little about. Janne Jarvis and Petja Lepola have crafted an album that pulses with the thundering rhythms and riffs of rock such as the Queens Of The Stone Age-esque ‘Truth About You’ while introducing a Nine Inch Nails-style sense of danceability and dynamic to proceedings, such as on ‘Have It Your Own Way’....Hate Gallery are truly coming into their own."
4/5
bigcheesemagazine
"A debut album from an unknown band is a precious thing; a chance to hear 30 minutes of music without any bias, and this is how it is with Finnish via London rock group Hate Gallery. Style rather to the point of perfection, they lead you into a world of driving rock.
The brutal tunes bomb along at 100mph on a bruising bassline and with giddy and reckless vocals....Grinding guitars mix angrily with fierce vocals for the ultimate angry ruckus. It's easy to imagine Hate Gallery putting on a vicious live show......"
10/13
roomthirteen.com
".....an album full of pure rock ‘n’ roll feeling...it’s so refreshing to have a young band who know how to genuinely rock....There should be lots more to be heard from Hate Gallery."
4/5
Jukebox
"It's post-grunge hard rock.....striving to be contemporary and relevant in an unforgiving era.
The band's potential is clear on songs like the concise ‘Slave New World’ and the effectively fierce ‘The Idiots’ ....a vibrant future for a colourful band."
Classic Rock Magazine
This album will screw you hard with it's dynamite, hard hitting, in your face rock - I just love the punk-ish energy.
"The Idiots" is a killer opener and "You Don't Know" should make Lemmy proud having as a Motorhead tune, I completely surrender to the earth shaking rock of "Slave New World" while the melodic "New God" should do just fine on radio.
This is real rock!
Kaj Roth Melodic.Net
"Sounding like a poor man’s Feeder, Hate Gallery's desperation can be felt between every cheesy, clichéd lyric and gap between each weak and empty song. The band are all talk and no trousers and you will soon realise that this band are not even worth a second listen."
Charlotte Otter
WHAT NORMALLY HAPPENS AT THE BEGINNING OF A BIOGRAPHY OF A NEW ROCK ACT IS THIS: Someone tries to tell you
that the band you’re reading about are the future of modern music. They’ll try to tell you that the CD which
arrived in the envelope you’ve just opened will Change Your Life. It is at this point, at least if you have
any sense, that you switch off. So let’s try something different. Let’s try the truth: Hate Gallery aren’t in
the business of changing the world. But by using music and energy and riffs and ideas, Hate Gallery might
just change your world.
“I want this band to be the kind of group that stands out from the crowd,” says vocalist and bassist Janne
Jarvis. Jarvis is Hate Gallery’s principal songwriter. He was born in Finland but lives in London. His band
were formed in England’s capital city in 2004. These are the only facts regarding band personnel and
background information that you need to know.
He continues: “I don’t want us to be associated with any kind of scene, with any other band that happens to
be either Finnish or English. I don’t want us to be associated with any one place. I don’t want us to be
thought of in terms of either fashion or trends. I want to be thought of as a band, as Hate Gallery.”
What Janne Jarvis is saying is this: let the music do the talking.
“The music we make is based upon the principles of honesty,” he says. “That might seem to be quite obvious,
but these days such a simple idea seems hard to come by.”
What this means is that Hate Gallery are about substance more than style. Without being reactionary (“this
isn’t a retro thing,” says the singer, “I’m not interested in the ‘good old days’”) this is a music thing –
it’s not about MySpace, Facebook or clothes bought in Camden Town. It’s about a distorted bass, a driving
drum beat, a strong vocal, a vibrant guitar and a good song. Oh, and then another good song, and another good
song, and another, and another, and another.
“If you don’t have the music in place first of all,” believes Jarvis. “Then you haven’t got anything at all.
It really is as simple as that.”
This ideology and attention to musical detail culminates in the release of the band’s debut album,
‘Compassion Fatigue’.
‘Compassion Fatigue’ is everything a British rock debut should be; should be, but often isn’t. It has fire in
its eyes, puke on its shoes and a point to make. It has an eye for an argument as well as an ear for a tune.
Songs such as ‘The Idiots’ (with its lyric concerning the pervasive pornography of reality television and its
docile audience) and ‘Slave New World’ (about how living in the city means surrendering one’s privacy to
electronic prying eyes) prove that at least one London rock band is interested in saying something worth
saying. It proves that there is at least one new band whose horizons look further than the next drink in the
fashionable bars of the city’s rock scene.
Oh, and about that album. At a blush over 30 minutes, ‘Compassion Fatigue’ carries no fat. It gets in, says
its piece and gets out. Just how it should be.
“What can I say?” says Janne Jarvis. “We make the kind of music that I would want to listen to, and because
we do that I can only believe that there are other people out there who feel the same way. Let me be
absolutely honest with you, if there’s been a better British rock album than ours released this year I
certainly haven’t heard it.”
Thanks for the add or Tack för adden :-)..we have a common friend Mika...he told me about you...you are great.I really liked your tunes. Welcome and keep the good work. Cheers~
Hey Hate Gallery , what's up! Thanks for your friendship and support. It really means a lot to us! Our new album "The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A" is out and should be in stores, at least that's what our record company told us. ha,ha. If you can't find it at your local stores, please ask them to order it. You can listen to some of the songs from the new album on our MySpace page. We hope you check it out! Buy it, download it, steal it ... just tell all your friends, send out a bulletin or a message to them and help us spread the word about our new album around the world. Hope to see you on tour.
Heya Mr Janne! Nice one, geeza! You got any gigs coming up with this crew? How was Stockholm? I must remember to always pack my passport and sunglasses for an extra large night out...xx
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