photo: Daniel Alexander Harris
Starting out an as all out hardcore punk band Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes are now exploring other pastures. Their new album End Of Suffering (the Buddhist term for enlightenment) is very much the wok of an English band, but they also taken cues from bands like Queens of the Stone Age and Soundgarden. It is still heavy and mostly angry, but they have added more melodic hooks and even some jazzy piano when they say hi to Amy Winehouse by quoting "Love is losing game". Depression and fear and loathing are clamouring for the upper hand in their lyrics, with lead single Anxiety as a belated addition to the recipe that was perfected by Nirvana.
End Of Suffering is the result of the cross pollination of the band's influences. They do whatever the fuck they want - a punk attitude that can keep them going for many years to come.
End Of Suffering is released via International Death Cult (vinyl, CD, digital). Release date: May 3.
Tracks- Why A Butterfly Can't Love A Spider
- Tyrant Lizard King
- Heartbreaker
- Crowbar
- Love Games
- Anxiety
- Angel Wings
- Super Villain
- Latex Dreams
- Kitty Sucker
- Little Devil
- End Of Suffering
- 05/02 Banquet Records, Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom
- 05/04 Record Junkee, Sheffield, United Kingdom
- 05/04 Rough Trade Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- 05/05 Crash Records Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
- 05/06 Sound Knowledge, Marlborough, United Kingdom
- 05/06 Pie And Vinyl, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
- 05/06 Resident Records, Brighton, United Kingdom
- 05/07 Village Underground, London, United Kingdom
- 05/09 Watford Colosseum, Watford, United Kingdom
- 05/10 The Great Escape Festival, Brighton, United Kingdom
- 05/30 Dauwpop, Hellendoorn, Netherlands
- 06/01 Primavera Sound, Barcelona, Spain
- 06/10 Mercury Lounge, New York, Ny
- 06/18 Pula Arena, Pula, Croatia
- 06/19 Pula Arena, Pula, Croatia
- 06/25 Fængslet, Horsens, Denmark
- 06/27 Koengen Fortress, Bergen, Norway
- 06/28 Suvilahti, Helsinki, Finland
- 06/29 Lollapalooza Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
- 06/30 Tuska Open Air, Helsinki, Finland
- 07/05 Down The Rabbit Hole, Beuningen, Netherlands
- 07/06 Eurockeennes, Sermamagny, France
- 07/18 Deichbrand Festival, Cuxhaven, Germany
- 08/07 Sziget Festival, Budapest, Hungary
- 08/08 Taubertal Festival, Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber, Germany
- 08/09 La Fête Du Bruit Festival, Landerneau, France
- 08/13 Sziget Festival, Budapest, Hungary
- 08/16 Pukkelpop, Hasselt, Belgium
- 08/17 Glassgow Summer Sessions, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- 08/19 Vital Festival, Belfast, United Kingdom
- 08/21 Rds Main Arena, Ballsbridge, Ireland
- 08/22 Leeds Festival, Leeds, United Kingdom
- 08/23 Reading Festival, Reading, United Kingdom
- 09/27 Kentucky Fair And Expo Center, Louisville, KY
