With five EP’s under their belts and their debut album due out later this year, UK five piece, The Fallen State, have more than enough decent songs to cram into their set in their first ever appearance in Newcastle.
Fronted by the charismatic Ben Stenning their powerful music, heavy on riffs but high on melody sits well within the modern Metal world occupied by the likes of Alter Bridge and Shinedown. In fact, if you played their music alongside those legendary acts, you’d be hard pushed to decide which one is the new kid on the block such is the strength of their song writing, even at this early stage of their career. It comes as no surprise therefore that Black Stone Cherry’s Chris Robertson has endorsed them to the extent of appearing in their latest video, Nova. This is a band clearly going places.
Opener Hope In Revival was driven on along by a tight groove from bassist Greg Butler and impressive drummer Rich Walker over which the dual guitars of Jon Price and Dan Oke laid their huge riff. An impressive and imposing start to their set, that never dropped off the pace.
Burn It To The Ground, another riff heavy song built on a huge melody and the Slash-esq riffing off Great Unknown have a real quality to them, while the dynamic Nova already has over one and a half million You Tube views and marks down The Fallen State as one most definitely to watch in 2018.
Review and Photos By Mick Burgess
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