Kill Cartel
Alternative / Hardcore / Rock

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The Band

Ed Sonsino - Guitar
Jed Sharpe - Guitar
Jimmy Lacey - Vox & Bass
Simon Edwards - Drummer

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Renfield Magazine (DE)
Kill Cartel's sound is so energetic, imaginative, dynamic and brilliantly played it seems effortless. Melodic and catchy but without adapting random Bad Religion clichés, this is hard rock without being stupid Gluecifer/Hellacopters/Schweinerock copys. This is not rudimentally anything one would generally imagine as British Punkrock. KC somehow manage to avoid all usual clichés which exist in terms of punkrock. This could also be due to the sound and singing, the first is high quality production and the latter is also comfortably different from the usual punkrock context.

New Pollution Magazine (UK)
“[Kill Cartel] hit all the right notes with fist pumping energy...overloaded with dirty bass lines and guitar licks to get you out of your seat and rocking down the front of the show. Pure Rock n’ Roll injected with punk attitude creates a whirlwind on the senses A blistering start to Kill Cartel’s career and hopefully with more to follow shortly"

A Short Fanzine About Rocking (UK)
These guys will go down well with anyone who’s into the kind of shit-kicking punk’n’roll style of bands like The Hellacopters and Backyard Babies, with 'Blood Red's more melodic edge also bringing to mind Therapy? at their most direct. Classy, assured stuff, I reckon Kill Cartel would be a blast live as well.
www.myspace.com/ashortfanzineaboutrocking

Sleazegrinder (USA)
Kill Cartel's opening salvo is a 6-song assault of high-tensile arena-sleaze, heavy on GN’R style scorch and fist-throwing choruses. The bleary-eyed savagery of “Blood Red” is the clear monster of the bunch, but not to worry, the whole thing snaps at you like an angry dog after the mailman. Welcome back to the jungle, fellas.
http://www.sleazegrinder.com/SleazeCDS.htm

Organ Magazine (UK)
No messing, back to basics mean lean angry low slung urgent fast indie-edged punk rock n’roll, but also heavy enough to satisfy the stomping metalheads. Heard it all before in a good kind of way – would you like that bullet in your head now? Sounds like it’d be a blast to be in this band, kind of get ya rocks off attitude and primal screaming and low slung bass playing and you’ve maybe heard this a million times, but hey sounds like they’d be a blast live, sound like they’d be a blast to be in.
www.organart.demon.co.uk

OX Magazine (Germany)
Over 3 years ago the debut album of The Roolettes was released on the now closed Vinyl Japan label, but what had begun very promising was soon over again, the band was history. With Kill Cartel, however, some former members of The Roolettes are back with a 4 track demo and nothing has changed in the sound: it is still the delightfully rough, straight and kicking rock sound, everyone who likes the Turbo ACs, Boozed, The Cult and similar border crossers between riffrock and punkrotz will be enthusiatic about this.(10:29) (7) Joachim Hiller






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