Chapterxiii

Single - Valentine

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Loosely residing in and around the South-West, Chapterxiii are a five-piece, pleasingly melodic, rock outfit and the sumptuous 'Valentine' is their latest single release. At a time when so many 'rock' bands are charging, seemingly blindly, down the metal/thrash/hardcore route it's great to find that there are still outfits that are prepared to stick to the well tried and tested British rock ethos of supplying great riffy rockin' tunes that comprise melody, well drafted lyrics, sensitive playing and accessible vocals - Chapterxiii, as you will have guessed are just such an outfit.

'Valentine' is a beautifully balanced pop-rockster that contains a hefty degree of commercial sensibility and opens up doors from many directions allowing access for rock-heads of several persuasions. 'Valentine', dare I say it, is great British rock as I grew up knowing it; hard and energetic but with well proportioned subtlety and that certain 'timeless' feel, plenty of singalongability but still with masses of head-bangin' possibilities. 'B' side, 'Just Because Of You', demonstrates that the excellent Chapterxiii don't entirely ignore some of the contemporary elements of metal mayhem by thrashing out an up-tempo work that introduces pacey riffs and 21st century knee-jerkin' percussion whilst retaining a strong hold on instrumental balance and showing a great understanding of vocal dynamics within the ensuing instrumental melee!

'Valentine' and 'Just Because Of You' by Chapterxiii sit together to form a great piece of modern rock that's living proof that rock music is alive and well and bubbling under somewhere in and around the Bristol area - smashin' stuff!!

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