Strain

Strain are powerful, uncompromising and in your face with their approach, but there is much, much more to them than being ‘just’ a hardcore punk rock act. The

NME / Singles - 'man of the moment' "WELL HERE'S a curious little bugger. Strain are three Helena Bonham Carter-eyebrowed, bottle-blonde snowboard instructors from Gloucester who come highly recommended by Kerrang!. The track is apparently about the Nietzschean glories of the eternal struggle between man and snowboard. What more do you need to know? It chugs and thunders in a relentless, utterly addictive monotone, ramming it's single killer riff so far down your throat that you can feel it in your toes. This is what 'Eye Of The Tiger' would sound like if it wasn't crap. I still think that snowboarders are twat-hatted trainspotters who probably say things like "rad" and "wicked" and think they're really hard because they drink Pepsi Max straight out of the bottle, but Strain prove that three of them at least are capable of rocking like gods." Steven Wells

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