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Ninety Two Degrees - Dystopia - Reviewed By Metal Digest ! Check it out here at this link:  https://metal-digest.com/2022/09/03/ninety-two-degrees-dystopia/

After several hours of head-scratching, the closest thing to a definition of Ninety Two Degrees’ giant debut effort ‘dystopia’ was to describe them as ‘early Queens of the Stone Age fronted by Robert Calvert and Saffron from Republica styling themselves on Stone Temple Pilots’. A bit strange, right

Anyway, away with such frivolity as definitions; what’s the album like? Well, it’s a riotous, entertaining lump of the 90s brought to a thoroughly modern edge by a quality production and inventive songwriting, with guitars ranging from ethereal to brutal, dual vocals with immense range, groove-driven blues drumming, and bass tones that could make Les Claypool smile ear to ear.

The only issue here is the length. It’s fine to release a large album, obviously, and you need look no further than Manic Street Preachers for proof that a long debut album can be a success story; but when the tracks all have somewhat of a theme, as is the case here, much after the first hour glazes over for the first few listens and might not fully sink in for the casual listener. This isn’t at all a musical criticism, as every bit of the album is engaging and entertaining in isolation, but anything outside of huge progressive concepts (see; ‘…Topographic Oceans’, ‘The Lamb Lies Down…’) really struggles to break the 1hr30 mark convincingly, and this, despite being excellent in all its constituent parts, doesn’t quite make itself an exception.

Overall, this is an amazing album that suffers only from being too long - Metal Digest

Release Date: February 2022

FFO: Queens of the Stoneage, Alice in Chains, Paramore, Siouxsie and the Banshees

Location: Australia

2020 heralded the arrival of a highly revelatory year that forced humanity through the eye of the needle of consciousness to express the deeper delusion that exists within the current Dystopian state of the planet.  This highly evocative album brings together a fusion of global energy’s to draw attention to this need for deeper liberation to come from within.

On this album, we have returned to our hard rock roots to embrace the Dystopian state of our world and our desperate need for self-correction. So, the songs reflect this deep attitude to use high energy well-crafted songs with a real worldly message that will appeal to a broader audience. Ninety Two Degrees is a group that defies convention that has the purity of truth at its core and the members all understand the role they play.

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Mike Puskas, All Guitars
Liz Aday – Vocals / Keyboards
Riki Buckingham – Lead Vocals / Bass
Iheb Zitouni – Bass
Asim Rhaminov – Drums / Percussion / Programming

Follow the band at these links:

https://mikepuskas.com/
https://www.facebook.com/mikedeadfamous
https://www.facebook.com/transferencemusic
https://www.facebook.com/transferencerecords
https://twitter.com/Transference1
https://www.youtube.com/user/ikonicartists
https://the7thsense.bandcamp.com/