Formed from the ashes of a number of bands that fell victim to the great music cull of the late 1990s and early 2000s, Shenoah have every quality necessary for a band who want to succeed, not to mention the skills to do so. Soaringmelodic choruses, low-end guitars, hard-hitting vocals, hooks to dragyou along with the music. Sure, it's nothing completely new, and a lotof Corporate Punishment's bands are in the same genre, but this doesn'tmean they're all copyists or devoid of original ideas. Shenoah arepossibly at the heavier end, incorporating harsher sounds and versesthan labelmates Allele and Switched.

Bleeding In The Redis only a short EP, a brief introduction to the band. As soon as theyget their first complete album complete, there's no reason these guysshouldn't make a dent. It also means that, when the albums comes, theyshould have ironed out all the creases to their sound (just as Switched managed for their second album).

Theonly criticism is the spoken-word jolt in the middle of "Age Of TheWhite Dove", which ruined the flow of an otherwise soaring,blood-pumping song. On the other hand, "Ashes To Ashes" is anincredibly emotional song, and one that could easily tear up the chartson either side of the Atlantic.