Dope Flood – A Planet on Four Legs (2011)

Hailing from Greece, today we have the Hard Rockers of Dope Flood delivering their 3 song EP titled “A Planet on Four Legs”. With a very mainstream sound, this Greek newcomer has a very catchy sound and excellent tunes, but sounds exactly like any other Hard Rock album we get here at Infernal Masquerade. While we are not saying this is bad, the band faces a hard up-hill battle to get noticed an hopefully signed in the future.

Immediately opening “Uncertain” with some powerful riffing the band’s sound becomes evidently mainstream, with the very familiar sounding vocal style. The production on the drums and guitars also sounds like most music we hear on the ‘alternative rock’ radio stations. The song itself is very well crafted and catchy, and if consider the band is from Greece, then they sound exactly like an American band taking a crack at this genre. But if you don’t consider that, they just sound like any other band playing in a club on Tuesday night.

“Shades” starts with a slower pace and takes a bit to build up, very nicely we might add. As we mentioned before, the production of the EP is excellent and in this track you can fully appreciate it with the dreamy sounding guitars. The vocals again steal the show and deliver a very powerful (yet familiar) performance. There is not much else going on in terms of  a ‘wow factor’ or anything that we can’t get enough off, just catchy and well-crafted music.

With more powerful guitar work, “A Planet of 4 Legs” closes this release and nicely rounds up the band’s presentation card. The band shows in this EP how they have the skills to create catchy and effective songs, if you are not looking for any originality. They do have musical skills, and the production behind this release makes them sound probably better than they are, but this is not a big issue for the genre itself. If you like catchy music and are wondering how a Greek band can sound so much like an American one, head to their website and download this release.

Release: March, 2011

Country: Greece