Dejected - by Anarchy & Son

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 Anarchy & Son is a father/son project out of Los Angeles and Michigan in the United States.  Dejected is a solid rockin' mix between metal and punk, with definite heavy riffage often with fast soloing on top.  Often times, the song kicks into double-time speed.  The guitars bring the metal aspect to the song with rhythmic and fast-moving chord progressions, with the vocals adding the melody and angst found in punk.

I LOVE  the diversity between different areas of this song.  The beginning of the song starts with a drum intro, and the bass comes in alone with the drums to get us going.  The guitars then blast in full-fledged!  In the middle of the song, an instrumental kicks in that brings the song to a new level!  It starts similarly to the beginning of the song with drums and bass building it up, then the lead guitar starts to melodically lead us to a driving piece of the song that makes me feel like I'm in the middle of a battle with a dragon, dodging the breathing fire and countering with flying sword swipes!  With a rhythmic tom-filled breakdown, that builds up only to drop off to the drums and bass, then a ringing chord...that slams into the heaviest part of the song!

I pointed out my favorite aspects of this song, but I couldn't point out everything.  There is so much variation and changing with great production tricks to keep the listener interested throughout.  It takes a lot of work on top of the musicianship to make this happen.  Kudos to Anarchy & Son for giving this song the love that it deserves!

It is truly impressive to hear such a mesh between punk and metal as this.  Where do the two genres obviously split apart to show their colors?  I'm truly not sure.  I think I come with an area that sounds metal, but it has punk aspects, too...so I gave up.  I tried in my first paragraph above...but now I am not convinced that I divided them correctly!  LOL!!!

I sincerely recommend this song, and the other songs by Anarchy & Son, to anyone who really wants to hear energized blasting rock with great songwriting and musicianship.

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