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| Record Journal - Thursday, December 21, 2000 by Chris Fritsch Somebody somewhere please sign Throne. It's about time someone extremely local blew up and made it big and it might as well be these three guys. They're young, good looking, and they know how to rock. Truly one of the most impressive bands Connecticut has to offer. I was originally turned onto Throne by a big fan of theirs who e-mailed me and asked me to check them out when they played Westfield Shoppingtown Meriden in early November. Unfortunately I was away, but when I returned I contacted the band's management and was invited to see them play in a local music showcase at the Webster Theatre about two weeks ago. Rumor had it that they sounded a lot like Silverchair and I had heard a lot of buzz about how great they were at the shows they had just finished playing on a little mini-tour they did. Of course, Silverchair is one of my favorite bands so I was hoping to see something pretty decent. What I did see was pretty great. They came out that night with energy, virtuosity, and a mixed up Silverchair line up. From the back of the Webster the singer is a dead ringer for Silverchair's Daniel Johns, but he plays the guitar. The guitar player from Throne looks like Jared from "My So-Called Life," which doesn't hurt at all. The drummer is only 16, the others 18, which further parallels them to the Silverchair phenomena. As they ransacked the stage and pounded the hardest out of all the other bands there that night I found that even their sound compared to Silverchair a little bit. It's not like they were a cover band, but they have some really great songs that drive at you the way you would expect a great band to. They also have a good sense of instrument experimentation to go with that heavy sound, which is nice. The only trouble is they're not signed. I can't understand that at all. Their first recording is a six-track tour de force of rock anthems, power ballads, and an underlying tone of resentment. The now famous "Overthrown," track five, which was featured on the "Cage Match" on Radio 104 beating out even my boys Godsmack and other multi-platinum bands like the Offspring, is not even the best that Throne has to offer. Their whole CD blazes of the synergy of rage and beauty from cover to cover. The best part, which is something bands need nowadays, is they have a sense of humor about things. The hidden performance, the infamous track seven, on their album showcases that with a scene from "Perfect Strangers." I definitely recommend trying to get this CD and seeing them live very soon. It might be your last chance because I can see these guys getting huge very soon. I've listened to and seen hundreds of great bands and Throne has the qualities it takes to make it in this rock world we live in today.
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