Dead Revolution is a Finnish band that got formed in 2000. They already released their first demo in 2003, but since I missed that one this is the first time I ever heard anything from them. Playing in the doom metal/stoner vein the band grooves itself through a nice set of "easy-listening"-music that balances mostly between heavy rock and traditional doom metal with some of those stoner influences (best heard in these aforementioned grooves).

This EP (with nice artwork) counts five tracks and clocks around twenty-five minutes. I'm not really sure whether there are real close comparisons to make, but a songs like "Silent Run" comes pretty close to the three first Danzig albums. And when looking closer to the stoner influences I hear a huge resemblance between early Spoiler (one of the best stoner bands from The Netherlands, before they went more into something that's more hardrock - too bad), but I think it is more of a co-incidence - for both bands mostly likely haven't heard about each other. Other than this all there are some more traditional heavy metal parts as well (best heard in the title track "Narrow Gates") which reminds on the most melodic works of Bruce Dickenson or Distillery for instance. Last but not least it has some things that sound similar to grungy bands like Alice In Chains (vocally; its is awesome, singer Timo sounds somewhat alike to Layne Staley).

All in all this is a nice EP and certainly deserves your attention when you feel attracted to one of the abovementioned bands or words. I would love to hear some of the future stuff of the band. Great band indeed!

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