It's fair to say that High Wycombe's band Young Guns debut album is not going to change the world
(but then again how many debut albums do?), nor is it going to damage it in any conceivable way.
It's also fair to say that it's not an album aimed at my particular demographic, but by no stretch
of the imagination is it a bad/indifferent or dull offering. All our Kings Are Dead is a perfectly
acceptable foray into inoffensive poppy style metal (you may not like it but it's still metal).
Following in the footsteps of such bands as Bullet for my Valentine and 30 Seconds to Mars, the
album has some catchy tunes (I found myself warbling along to Winter Kiss) some decent hooks and
solid production.
I had a quick glance at their gruelling touring schedule (which is packed solid
for the rest of the year) which shows to me they are willing to put the in the time and the leg
work to make it in the sometimes bitter and jaded world of metal, and they aren't just sat waiting
for 'fame and fortune' to land in their lap, and I say good on 'em I wish them the best.
The teenage angst market will eat this up and I can see the band being very successful, no it's
not groundbreaking but so what? Honestly, given the choice I would much rather my Teenager was
listening to this as opposed to all that N-dubz type nonsense which could be rotting their
intellect and destroying their ability to compose a sentence that doesn't comprise mainly of txtspk.
