Artist: Random Hand
Genre: Metal/Punk/Ska
Location: Keighly, West Yorkshire, UK
Label Type: Indie
Record Label: Bomber Music
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/randomhand
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/randomhand
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/randomhand
Seething is Believing is the third studio album from West Yorkshire’s Ska Punk band Random Hand. Released on March 21st this year, this is without doubt the band’s best album yet. They have progressed without moving away from their musical roots keeping the same blend of punk rock and ska, but simply improving it.
With their previous two albums, Change of Plan and Inhale/Exhale, as a listener you lose attention towards the end, but with this album, each song brings something different and keeps you gripped throughout.
The album itself is focussed very much on the band’s strong left-wing political views. It seems as though they have become more confident in their own political views than in years gone by and this shows as they express these views more freely and more assertively on the record. The album is one which attracts listeners from ska, punk and metal backgrounds, and one which gets better and better with every listen. They continue to fuse fast pace ska riffs and heavy guitar licks with aggressive vocals demonstrating their hard-hitting ska infused political punk.
‘Tales of Intervention’ sets the tone with the familiar sound of angry hardcore and brassy riffs, synonymous to the sound of Random Hand. The intelligent lyrics in this tune are heartfelt and as mentioned before are politically based, with lines like “we’re ambassadors to no one” they state their intentions and they are here to be heard! ‘Not A Number’ is another great tune illustrating their ska side, while ‘Three From Six’ becomes a real hardcore mash-up, one sure to get the metalheads head banging in approval. Yet arguably the best track on the record is ‘Bones’, which takes elements from both sides of the equation. The Final track on the album titled ‘Find What’s Out There’ is available to download for free; alternatively you can purchase the album which is out now!
Overall, the record stays strictly to the ska punk guidelines and even though they could have added a little more creativity and innovation it is bound to be one of the finest UK skacore albums this year. Hopefully this album means that in the near future the band get the appreciation they so richly deserve.
Check out Random Hand when tonight they begin their tour with The King Blues and Sonic Boom Six for what is sure to be a cracker! As is this wonderful video for 'Not A Number':
