Band: Hell is For Heroes
Album: The Neon Handshake
Released: Februrary 2003
Favourite Track: I Can Climb Mountains
Favourite Lyric: “Can’t seem to judge the distance between my hands and feet quite literally”
Once upon a time there was a band called Symposium. The were a sort of throwaway pop-punk band. They achieved moderate success but were never going to do anything groundbreaking. They split up and then I heard stories about some of the members of the band being in this new band called Hell is For Heroes.
I’d heard their live shows were great and that their upcoming album would be amazing. It seemed to take ages for that album to arrive but when it did it showed that it was worth the weight.
This is one of those albums where nothing is wasted. It is a straight up awesome rock album with hooks, punches, screaming… all the good shit.
I have seen the band perform this album in its entirety twice (although the first time I missed half the show and I’m still upset by it). The last time was in 2018 which was one of my favourite gigs of all time. I wrote loads about this then so I may be just reiterating som of what I said.