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'By Any Means Necessary' Album Reviews
Kerrang! - (KKKK) "Such an irresistably charming, scuzzy, riotous noise."
Metal Hammer - (7/10) "Disarm hurtle through 12 tracks of molten punk'n' roll mayhem with a bloody-knuckled flourish."
Big Cheese Magazine - 4 Stars (out of 5) "Mexborough in South Yorkshire may not be rock n roll central but nobody told this strutting four piece. Their raucus and relentless songs mix punk and out of control rock 'n' roll with glam to produce an album that sounds like Backyard Babies, Guns 'n' Roses, Turbonegro and The Misfits in a knife fight. Songs like 'Bark. Bite. Scream' are bursting with attitude and energy and the Mighty 'She's my Disease' is a riff monster. If you wish rock bands still sounded dangerous then Disarm are the band you've been waiting for."
Komodo Rock. 8.8 out of 10 - Disarm scream out of the gates with their debut album 'By Any Means Necessary' like a freight train straight to hell, with a quick stop of in Scandinavia. Intense from the get go, these Mexborough quartet are not what many people seem to think they are. You might be sat thinking that they're that glam band that have been on the road for much of the last few years, and you'd be half right. They have been on the road a lot. But no matter what people might try and tell you, this isn't glam, not even in the Motley Crue sense. Disarm have far more in common with the likes of the Backyard Babies and their Scandinavian punk n rollers; they are sleaze merchants, but dirty, heavy and full on like a dirty needle plunging in your arm. Forget everything you've heard, forget what people will try and tell you, and pick up this album, tie yourself down, and get ready for a ride to hell and back at 100mph. If you like your rock n roll dirty, if you like the Babies, or Crashdiet, or Bullets N Octane, then Disarm are right up your street. If you hate that stuff, you aint gonna want to get anywhere near this rock n roll disaster.
Leeds Music Scene. Four and a Half Stars (out of 5) - What can I say about Disarm? This is a band of energetic musicians that makes a team Sir Alex Ferguson would be proud of. Everything from the drums, lead guitar etc was a pleasure to hear, these guys are amazing! Whoever wrote the lyrics is a mastermind genius (recommended to be a member of Mensa). Disarm has a thrash punk-ish style with a 'who gives a shit' attitude, but they have certainly hit a nail on the head with this album. All 12 tracks are different; all sung with a great deal of effort, but played with a great deal of talent. This is a band you WILL want to see and buy every single, album, and gig ticket for their next tour. Disarm are as addictive as beer and I love the golden stuff. What Disarm put into their music is pride, passion and pure punk rock that this type of music has been missing for a long, long time. The drummer, Ant, has an element of thrash metal in his style of play and the lead guitar from Brad and Jamie could rock all day and my head will still be banging. Brad's vocals could crack the world open with a talent like he possesses and I wish you guys luck! You all flow with talent that is unbelievable, a dream of a band that will someday make it in this crazy faddy world of music. Disarm are a band that put this genre of punk into a new age, a true tribute to new punk/metal after all these years proving that the music still lives on. A vocal talent from lead singer Brad, that words can't praise enough. The power, the harmonics mixed together with this pure vocal talent is something I haven't heard in a very long time. The rest of the band play their instruments like demons, they must have been good because the truth of the matter is it kept my wife quiet - fuck me that's a first - she usually hates rock/punk/thrash, but it opened her eyes to a music that's fantastic and it will grow on you.
Live 4 Metal.com - What gets classed as Punk these days makes the genre a very confusing place to define. Here we have something at the glammier end of the spectrum. It's still an in-your-face, high octane assault, but the aggression is tempered by a catchy, (classic era) Hanoi Rocks/Rock N Roll style, which definitely doesn't fit in with the snarl of real English Punk Rock. No, this one takes me back to the time when Back To Mystery City was on constant rotation on my old record player and this crazy music from Scandinavia was starting to have a big effect on me. And as the album progresses, you realise what a big influence must have been on whoever wrote most of the songs on this album. I hear a lot of Mike Monroe in singer Jamie's voice as well. Basically, this is almost as good as anything I've heard out of Scandinavia, bar a few classic albums in the 80s. So what's the downside? Not a lot really. Not for the first time recently, I'm questioning a band name in relation to the music they play, and in my opinion, Disarm doesn't fit what's coming out my headphones. Maybe the title of track 4, Bark, Bite, Scream would be a more appropriate band name. Something with a bit of bite to it, as that's what Disarm excel at. Fast, attitude filled anthems with a bit of a kick.
