HINDER

80's butt-rock, hair metal fans or whatever you want to call it well you are in for a treat today as Hinder is a throwback to the musical stylings of LA Guns, Guns and Roses, Whitesnake, Warrant. On this first release entitled Extreme Behaviour you get a good mix of down tuned modern rockers in the vain of Sinch and Nickelback, straight ahead rock like something from a Motley Crue Album and cheesy ballad type songs like Lips of Angel. That song has received a lot of radio airplay, where you might have heard lead singer Austin Winkler crooning:

"Honey why are you crying? Is everything okay? I gotta whisper 'cause I can't be too loud. Well, my girl's in the next room. Sometimes I wish she was you. I guess we never really moved on. It's really good to hear your voice saying my name.It sounds so sweet. Coming from the lips of an angel. Hearing those words it makes me weak"

On the straight ahead rockers like Homecoming Queen, Room, Get Stoned he tells us: "Let's go home and get stoned. We could end up making love instead of misery. Go home and get stoned. Cause the sex is so much better when you're mad at me"

Then you get songs like Better than Me, By the Way, and Shoulda which sound like a combination of a Whitesnake ballad combined with a Sinch modern rock song when he sings "When you said those three words. I kinda freaked out. When you said them first my jaw hit the ground I shoulda woulda coulda said it back to you. And this can't be saved if you can't be found. You hung up and left me for dead on the ground"

Definitely nothing groundbreaking lyrically on this album but definitely good rock that you can indulge in as a guilty pleasure.

RATING: 6/10 Worth a spot in your rock collection

SOUNDS LIKE: Motley Crue, Whitesnake, Sinch, The Darkness, Nickelback

BAND BIO: "In the liner notes to their major label debut, Oklahoma City's Hinder endorse tequila, Belvedere, Crown Royal, Jägermeister, and Mr. Watson 540. In "Get Stoned," photogenic Austin Winkler (who sounds tougher than he looks) rasps, "Let's go home and get stoned." Later, he adds, "The break-up is worth the make-up sex you're givin' me." In "Bliss (I Don't Wanna Know)," the lead singer laments, "The vodka's running on empty." This is a problem because, "I can't stay sober/if it's over." But things pick up in "Room 21" where he meets a "b*tch" with "red lipstick and pale pink boots," who shows him a good time (yes, he said boots). And he doesn't even know her name! The days of big hair-and-spandex metal may be long gone, but in songwriting terms, Hinder's music is a throwback to the politically incorrect Sunset Strip days of Guns N' Roses, LA Guns, and Faster Pussycat. For some hard-rock aficionados, they will surely come as a breath of fresh air. For those with more refined tastes--a blast of stale cigarette smoke. That said, "Homecoming Queen" is surprisingly tender ("She never walked on water/'cause no one really saw her"), proving that way down deep inside, the frisky fivesome does have a teeny, tiny, little beating heart. Overall though, if the platinum long-player, which was cowritten with producer Brian Howes, has a message, it's this: Girl, you broke my heart and I hate you for it. Oh, and alcohol is good." From: Amazon.com

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BAND MEMBERS:

Austin Winkler (Vocals)
Mark King (Guitar)
Blower (Guitar)
Mike Rodden (Bass)
Cody Hanson (Drums)

WEBSITES:

www.myspace.com/hindermusic
www.hinderonline.com
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