I’m grateful that OF LIMBO do what they do and do it so properly. I can’t recall one other exhausting rock outfit rising lately that packs the identical high-velocity punch as this Australian-born pair possess throughout their new single “California Demon”. They pack a wallop that hits you from completely different angles slightly than bash and thudding away till you’re bludgeoned into submission. It’s one other mile marker on the street in direction of world success for the pair and can undoubtedly be a staple of their dwell appearances going ahead – as properly it needs to be. “California Demon” faucets into rock music’s major line and bleeds the type dry for each bit of its songwriting and musical firepower.

This may increasingly simply be the monitor that pushes them into mainstream stardom. It doesn’t actually matter ultimately, nevertheless, as OF LIMBO comes off as two musicians who would nonetheless be writing and taking part in music with the identical ardour even when the top product by no means noticed the sunshine of day. The thought of somebody promoting their soul for stardom is clearly one which impressed their songwriting to an incredible diploma, and so they throw the complete weight of their interpretative powers behind making this tune as convincing as potential.

The guitar and singing are essential to that objective. The previous wheels by means of an assortment of assaults from rib-smashing riffs, scintillating passages veering on whole chaos, and restrained but ominous lighter passages that invoke temper over energy. The vocals careen from ear-shattering bellows into low-key and threatening phrasing that will get underneath your pores and skin from the primary line onward. The manufacturing captures all of these parts with an ear in direction of stability and there isn’t a single part of the monitor that overshadows the others.

OF LIMBO’s single makes for an incredible soundtrack to the tune’s accompanying video. It intensifies the temper of the monitor with its swirl of lit candles, blood-red backdrops, shadows, and gouts of fireplace. The efficiency parts of the clip present OF LIMBO in full flight, performing with each bit of the identical abandon that they carry to their dwell appearances. Actress Kelly Hyde is a superb addition to the video as properly; it isn’t tough to image her as a nubile younger magnificence succumbing to the temptations of darkness for the promise of fame.

The lyrics inform the story, not in a linear trend, however nonetheless with a lot of important element and a few memorable payoff traces. They’re completely tailor-made for the monitor. It’s a tune that avoids any extraneous fluff each lyrically and musically; the band reveals off its chops, unquestionably – nevertheless it’s all the time with a watch in direction of crafting a greater tune. They’ve succeeded. “California Demon” is well one of 2023’s greatest exhausting rock tracks and has actual endurance.

It’s a band with apparent endurance total. OF LIMBO is constructing a sturdy profession one monitor at a time and this new single strikes the goalposts for them in a major method. There are even better triumphs forward, with out query, however you received’t quickly overlook the hearth and fury of “California Demon” which is a real exhausting rock gem. 

Mindy McCall