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into their dusky electric world. Perhaps the title, 'Summon The Heroes', is a clue to what the Rushing are bringing you here; all that's great about rock music from across the ages delivered with today's aggression and fortitude - all the physics and make-up of a well tried and tested genre delivered with the chemistry of the new age - rock music for today and tomorrow!
Yes, on 'Summon The Heroes' The Rushing inject new life into this time-defying form; typically stuffed with great riffs, absolutely bustin' with pounding rhythms and offering plenty of scope for head-bangers and heavy-heads to let off plenty of steam, 'Summon The Heroes' rocks all day long. It's a superbly crafted album that puts instrumental restraint and controlled vocal finesse back into hard rock and makes it 'real' again. Thankfully The Rushing avoid the confused mayhem of the metalists and the obtuse self-indulgence of the stoners and stick firmly to 'roots' rock whilst injecting their own subtle nuances and modernistic twists into the long-admired form; The Rushing's rock is tangible and accessible and offers the listener all the singalongability and air-guitar thrashing possibilities he/she could ever want - and then some!!
Although their music does owe much of its brutish power and elegant style to bands like Guns'n' Roses, Aerosmith and Metallica, The Rushing still manage to write and play with wonderful originality and cutting-edge modernity. By no means plagiarists, The Rushing add their own deft touches and dynamic deviations through the introduction of beautifully proportioned 'strings' and 'things'; the arrangements are monumental and even at their loudest and most searing The Rushing still manage to maintain impressive instrumental separation and supreme aural clarity. With eleven amazingly well-delivered tracks to enjoy and get yer rocks off to, 'Summon The Heroes' is a fantastic album of rock-of-the-ages for the rock-minded discerning public; stunningly assembled and beautifully packaged, 'Summon The Heroes' by The Rushing is right up there with the best of 'em - a real contender and a worthy addition to anyone's collection. 'Summon The Heroes' by The Rushing is classic rock at its rampant best and fully deserves massive success - The Rushing make rock music 'whole' again and very believable - excellent!
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