Digital Order sounds like you've bought something online and the company wants to confirm your purchase but it's actually a band from Australia that's said to be a blend of modern dance music and classic hard rock such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
Founded
in 2013 with members Shane Ariti on vocals, Will Cruz playing guitar and
keyboards, drummer Henry Gunson and guitarist Andy Beerli DIGITAL ORDER have
consistently charted on local Australian radio as well as digital radio in the
States.
Their 2014 EP launch was
followed with 2 crowd funded Australian tours and drummer Henry Gunson secured
the band an exclusive clothing partnership with Australian clothing label ALPHA
LEGION. DIGITAL ORDER are about to release yet another installment from their
highly anticipated album ‘Sons of the Odyssey‘.But for now what we have is the
single "On Our Way".
Vocally this song reminds me
of some of the Punk Pop bands of the Ninties such as Blink 182 or Greenday but
the intro's chord structure and mandolins and the guitar solo (are guitars
solos making a comeback?!) give this song a Led Zep vibe. This is yet another
new foreign band that sounds heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin. Then again,
being an American I guess Led Zeppelin is a foreign band as well. Are there no
new, young American Hard Rock bands? Is this like 1964 when the American music
scene had become so corporate and stagnate that the rebirth of the Music
Industry had to invade from England?
Now it's Norway and Australia that
are sending us back our own sound. There is nothing wrong with that but I am
curious how "Australian Rock" would sound. I hear some Nine Inch
Nails ambient noise and of course, the Led Zeppelinness but is there anything
in the mix that makes DIGITAL ORDER sound "Australian"? I'm not asking
for another "Men At Work" (who got sued for sounding too Australian),
just something with some local flavor. With the world shrinking and TV and the
Internet allowing everyone, everywhere to turn on to the same thing at the same
time, we're becoming too homogenized and the next step is too sterile. This
single is good for what it is but what it is we've heard before. As an American
Rock & Roll is MY ROOTS, where are this bands' roots? it's great that
different people from opposite sides of the planet can all relate to the same
culture but I don't go to a Chinese restaurant to get a hamburger or hotdog.
I'm just saying.
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