Inside The Hole is a Sicilian (Italian) Rock band with strong hard ‘n blues influences. On 19th, January 2024, the band released their latest full-length album, “The Rotten Side,” which was released through Elevate Records.
Inside The Hole, The Rotten Side: This review will evaluate every aspect of the album, from its intricate musical composition to its production. Our analysis will provide valuable insights to help you determine if this album is worth adding to your collection.
The First Three Sins of The Rotten Side
Let’s start by discussing the first three sins of Inside The Hole and their album, The Rotten Side
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Features electrifying, dirty hot-smoking and groovy riffs, with punk ‘n’ roll melodies and rhythms ‘n’ blues. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Smoky vocals reminiscent of aged whiskey. The Third Sin—The Percussions: Delves into the vast world of raw and hell-bent drum work with various strikes, fills, and beats.
The Fourth Sin: Overall Discussion: A perfect soundtrack while handling a glass of peaty Lemmy on the rocks…
Straight To Hell, the opening piece, greets the listener with an edgy, groovy and aggressive intro as soon as the listener presses the play button.
As the listener continues their journey with the second piece, Rotten Side Of Your Mind, and the remaining six pieces, they are transported on a psychedelic acid trip.
Inside the Hole, is not what you think it is — this is something different and unique, and music that thinks out of the box and a devilmanship that does what the hell they want to do. At the same time, Inside The Hole is not your normal rock ‘n’ roll band, each song is different, mind-bending various genres and instrumentation within twenty-four minutes, and you will come good friends with that repeat button.
Rotten Side Of Your Mind features the devilmanship of Roy Zappia (the guitarist for the Italian black metal band Emberfrost), Francesco Less and Giulio Di Martino. A devilmanship, which is a fruit of art, provides the listener with a musical journey that’s full of light, energy, enjoyable and entertaining from the set go. Not only the songs are different, but each song’s composition is different, such as tempo, mood, atmosphere, and style — thus creating this musical chemistry to move into new poetic atmospheres.
While the listeners downs their Lemmy on the rocks and intake their acid (after the third piece, it will feel like you’re on an acid trip). The listener will encounter in the opening piece, Straight to Hell, features some devilish and sexy saxophone playing, and the third piece, A Man Called Chicken, features the speed-ridden bluegrass banjo playing. While the rest of the pieces, either draws from punk, hard rock, bluegrass, country, psychedelic, and surf rock that mixes the dirty rock ‘n’ roll vibes of Motörhead, the shamelessness of Danzig, down to the roots of blues.
Both the production and the performance are flawlessly executed, with every aspect of the composition meticulously timed and precision-placed. The songwriting and instrumentation display a fruit of art. The guitar work is both electrifying and gritty, while the drum work exudes raw and edgy energy, complemented by powerful, smoky vocals reminiscent of aged whiskey.
The Rotten Side is the perfect soundtrack while handling a glass of peaty whisky sitting in an old saloon or while driving your chopper forward, a special trip inside the human’s mind.
The album comes to an end with the last song, All I Know. We want to give a shoutout to Inside The Hole for letting us review their album, The Rotten Side album. We shall conclude the review by discussing the final three sins.
You’re Listening to “Rotten Side Of Your Mind”
PlayThe Last Three Sins
Let’s discuss the last three sins of Inside The Hole and their album, The Rotten Side
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia:
The Rotten Side, for me, is something different, fresh, and new and what did I listen to? From the fruit of art songwriting, composition in the music, lyrics, and instrumentation — to the devilmanship… The music draws from Motörhead and Danzig, especially in some vocal devilmanship. But I get this strong feeling and vibe of Lemmy‘s other band, Headcat, who played rockabilly to rock and roll, but I get this Coverdale-Page and early experimental works of Queen. Along with Hank Williams, Jonny Crash and The Devil Went Down to Georgia within the twenty-five minutes of play. Twenty-five minutes was worth every minute and a satisfying listen over and over.
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork:
Not to sure about the artwork
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish:
Nothing to disrelish within the musical spectrum of Inside The Hole and their album, The Rotten Side
This concludes the Inside The Hole and their album, The Rotten Side review.
Track-listing:
- Straight To Hell
- Rotten Side Of Your Mind
- A Man Called Chicken
- A Strange Lie Called Life
- Shamamika
- Not Falling Down
- Moonlight Riders
- All I Know
Inside The Hole Is:
- Roy Zappia: vocals, electric & acoustic guitar
- Francesco Less: bass/vocals, cigar box guitar, and tenor sax
- Giulio Di Martino: drums
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