Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Courtship is the unlikely warning of what can be expected when a person’s fancy turns to love, we are unprepared for the vibration in our hearts as the pace quickens and the mouth goes dry at the barest hint of conversation. In the right hands we go all of a quiver and if the intentions are true we can expect the earth to become unstable beneath our feet; in these, The Three Tremors of love and nature are not just a passionate declaration, they are an upheaval of the old way and into the new.
Three individuals coming together should not be able to create such an early stunning collaborative success of music, and yet the three behind the tremors are more than just any musicians, they are the series of volcanic rumblings which sets of the countryside around them into a realm of awe and wonder, a human trio into which eruption of expertise is to be found.
In Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens, Sean Peck and Harry Conklin court the fans with fury and brimstone, and yet for all the flinching of the ground beneath, it is the heart quivering with open-ended excitement which makes the most noise.
From the initial seismic opening of Invaders From The Sky and each subsequent shockwave that rattles the soul in songs such as When The Last Scream Fades, Wrath of Asgard, King Of The Monsters, The Pit Shows No Mercy, Lust Of The Blade and the fantastically apportioned bonus of the album’s title track, The Three Tremors, the barrage of music is such that the explosions announced at the start of the proceedings, are still felt reverberating around the room and the listener’s soul long into the night.
An album which announces the belief of a big bang here on Earth, a smash and grab into which The Three Tremors leave the listener impressed with the quality of their time together, to produce a piece of art this good in your first attempt is to acknowledge quality.
The Three Tremors release their self-titled debut album on the 18th January via Steel Cartel Records.
Ian D. Hall