If you are in the rock and roll game, it all starts with a good riff. “Chaos Habitual” has at least four running through it, any of which an up-and-coming band would have considered winning the jackpot had they written.
It’s a song that runs on a confident strut, mid-paced but full of menace, proof that it isn’t all about volume and velocity (well, not till they get to the play out, put the foot on the gas and break for the border in top gear) but that sonic dynamics, punch, poise, and poignancy are every bit as successful approaches.
Sitting somewhere between Danzig’s dark gospels and The Cult’s Sonic Temple era groove, it is neither wholly classic rock nor alternative, instead echoing those bands astute enough not to get caught up in tags and labels, and who are happy to ebb and flow between both, often in the same song… as is the case here.
Like many bands in these darkening times, Broken Romeo turns its attention to the world around them, the bigger picture, but what is being discussed is not the entrenched politics or social changes we see around us, but a more personal soul-searching and an exploration into the darker side of human habits, obsession, and self-destruction, which in turn fuels the big machine.
“Chaos Habitual” is that much-needed thing, a song that echoes all the familiar sounds of rock music as we know it, but which also drags everything forward into, not just the now, but towards a healthy and vibrant future for the genre.
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