If you like Thrice when they rocked ‘Deadbolt’ before going a bit arty farty and soft, then All Forgotten will be your new favourite band. I remember catching these guys at the 2008 Slam Dunk Festival and, having not heard them before, being really impressed. They had a solid stage presence and a huge sound and ever since I’ve kept my eye on them with interest. ‘Transitions’ is a beast of a record. It sounds enormous. It’s heavy and hard-hitting, yet has some beautiful melodies too. All Forgotten manage to overcome the genre’s limitations by not just singing and screaming and throwing in generic breakdowns for the sake of it – their vocal melodies are spot on and the heavy bits are shit-the-bed heavy. And the riffs…
I think you can see where this review is going. ‘A Living Not Worth Of A Life’ is the perfect kickstart this EP needs. It starts off with a brilliant guitar riff and drives into some awesome melodic vocals. It’s catchy, hard and brilliant. And that’s exactly how you could sum up the EP as a whole. Second track ‘A Fools Throne’ leaps out of the speakers as the guitars again impress no end, while ‘Love From A Mother’ is probably my favourite song of the five. Jonathon Thorne’s vocals are sensational on this song as the band manage to get the perfect mix between the vocals and the wall of noise behind them.
‘Transitions’ is one of the best UK band’s EPs released in quite some time. It does everything you’d expect from bands of this type and then some more on top of it. It outperforms most of their US peers too. Exciting stuff and I think, no, I know, we will be hearing much, much more from this band.