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Alan Ovington's Album Review - 17 October 2024

Thursday, 17 October 2024 00:00

By John Dash

Gorilla Riot are a five-piece rock band from Manchester with a dual-guitar sound and multi-part vocal harmonies. They play raucous blues-based rock, combining elements of grunge, stoner, and country to create a full-on high energy sonic experience.

Mainman, Arjun Bhishma, surrounded himself with some of the best talent in the area to form Gorilla Riot. He is joined by Charly T. (guitars & vocals), Deggy (bass), and Matt Talbot (skins) with Luci Vee (backing vocals).

They have entered the charts twice in recent times, albeit on compilation albums, but last week they will released their own album 'Salvation'.

Arjun Bhishma says, "'Salvation' is a beautiful melting pot between classic R'n'B, rock 'n' roll, and a voluptuous helping of gospel and soul. It features heartfelt vocals & lyrics straight from the depths of life, accompanied by a wide range of soulful guitars, traditional eastern instruments, and gospel vocals, all the way down to the dirty grit of the blues.

"We mainly recorded it in an analogue environment with us playing in one room, the warmth and humanity can be experienced in every single one of these songs, and we hope it provides an emotional and inclusive experience to you all."

Gorilla Riot has built its reputation as a hard living, hard playing, genre-straddling rock n roll band that can draw forth tears of joy one minute and then the pain of a heart-felt lament, the next.

Equally at home acoustically or electrically, they have toured extensively with headline shows in Spain and France, and across the UK. That reputation saw them invited to join sold out shows with Reef, Airbourne and The Darkness.

* Alan Ovington's Rock Zone can be heard 7-9pm every Wednesday on 103.6FM Tameside Radio (repeated Friday 9-11pm) and On Demand at tamesideradio.com. More rock news at therockzone.net. Twitter @tamesiderock

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