Chiro - Tunnel (2017) - Music planted on the ground of kings

Elected by the magazine Devilution (Danish major publication) as Denmark's second best band of the year, Chiro debuts in the world of Stoner Metal with the visceral album Tunnel. It premieres in the most poetic sense, because the band has roots in the distant year of 1989 and has been creating music with different names and compositions for more than 20 years.


Chiro practices a Heavy Rock loaded in the stoner spirit. The production contained creates the classic garage rock environment, everything you hear comes from vocals, guitar, bass and drums, with no finesse or excess. The album opens in the rhythmic groove doom of Supreme, the harsh vocals gives the rock n'roll tone of the album. The Tunnel track leans to heavy rock with increased speed and aggressiveness sustained by a prominent bass work. The heavy speed stands out in tracks like Ben and Dozer and a discreet grunge-alternative influence can be felt in Womb and Porcus. The best song is Burning that alternates quiescent moments with rabid choirs that lure the audience to the track under the effect of the heavy distorted guitar swing.

With an honest and captivating sound Chiro also wins the call for simplicity. In a time when the duality divides between being root or noob, the Danes of Chiro are deep in the same soil in which the most classic bands of rock and metal (name your favorites) have sprouted, now it is only to leave the shade and look for the place in the sun.

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