Easykill Review from www.music.com

The Easy Kill are simply looking for people to call home. Stemming from Lake Havasu, Arizona, which they label a party town where trends come and go as quickly as weekends, the Easy Kill are a fresh start from the ashes of another band, looking to build up a steady fan base in a city where a lack of all-ages shows means working twice as hard to draw in a young audience.

Ask the Easy Kill what their songs are about and they'll offer up the theme of real life â�“ that is, if drummer Kevin is your representative (which he is) and real life is about sex, drugs and rock 'n roll (which, according to new track "The Man Below," it is). This group serves up an interesting mixture of experience; at 20, Sean is the youngest member of the band and the only one young enough to have spent his musically formative years surrounded by hardcore as we currently know it. With the additions of Sean and final bass player Troy â�“ the group claims to have gone through several bassists prior to Troy â�“ Kurt and Kevin could add to their growing history together and finally head down a more steadily directed path.

Coming from Pummel, a more traditional rock band he likens to Nickelback or Goo Goo Dolls, Kevin says he and Kurt agreed, after putting together an acoustic demo, that they needed to put aside softer rock for a while and revive the energy they'd casually exercised in punk bands before the days of Pummel. It would appear the appropriate decision, too â�“ in addition to the group's youthful energy, a sure sign that the boys will never grow old and bland, Kevin says that some of the Easy Kill's best experiences lie in the kids they meet while touring small cities. The poppy hardcore style that the Easy Kill chose to take on meant that they and their young audience could feed off each other's energy, and those kids are what will likely propel them further in the near future, which may not have been the case had Pummel ultimately been their creative outlet. Luckily for the Easy Kill, there's a US tour coming up this October, and between the midwest and east coast, there'll be plenty of people to meet.

The Chicago stretch of that tour will be memorable for more than just the fans, though â�“ the Easy Kill will have the chance to record with Dan Wlekinski of 88 Fingers Louie and Rise Against, the latter of whom is a big inspiration to the Easy Kill. In addition to Rise Against, the group is a big fan of pop punk pioneers and hardcore revivalists like Pulley, NOFX and Thursday, though Rise Against is the group they'd most love to tour with at this point in time. With that new connection in tow, it just might come.

As far as the future goes, it's far too early to predict the group's evolution (first on the list is churning out the record and tracking down a label). But ask the Easy Kill who they are and what they might become, and you'll get an answer that's at once honest and optimistic: "We try to stick to what we are feeling at the time...as we grow as a band, our music grows with us." They're reasonable, they acknowledge themselves as people as much as they acknowledge themselves as musicians, and they're bringing Lake Havasu to a town near you.

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Easykill Review from www.music.com