“Funk Metal, Turntables, Rap and Metal are ordinary bedfellows at this point, but The Five L’s doesn’t rest on gimmicks to impress. The best feature of this heavy crew is how often they switch up their style. Every song on their Breathe Deep CD reveals a new and different self.” – CityBeat, September 21, 2005 Cincinnati, OH
"Breathe Deep might be the greatest recording ever independently release without the support of a record label." - From the article “Five Bands You Don’t Want to Miss” – Go Triad Magazine 06/17/04
"When these guys pick up their instruments it’s like their picking up weapons – they’ll blow you away. Another thing this band has is dynamics. Cheebo’s melodic vocals soar over the raw, growling guitars, and double-bass drum licks fly between synchronized tom fills. The next minute all is quiet and the bass pumps the rhythm along while the drums cool down to carry the background. Tim Westemoreland lays down a syncopated rap and DJ Armstrong places in scratches and samples. Then the music builds and BAM, another full force cannon takes a blow at me. It’s immediately obvious that… they have been able to meld with each other like many bands, and often good musicians, are unable to."– Lee Adams, Yes! Weekly 3/16/2005
" Five L's crank it to 10….chugging guitars and angry wails that more directly draw influences from Rage Against the Machine and Slipknot." - The Ledger Enquirer, March 11, 2005; Columbus, GA
"A true indie release of emo metal. What makes them stand out from the pack is the sampling and turntable play of David Armstrong." - Stubble Musiczine, Issue 37
"Heavy guitar riffs with a hint of Tool tones infused with hip-hop for that Limp Bizkit vibe and guttural screaming with clean vocal harmonies for all the emo-hard-core fans. They also mix in spaced out trippy leads for all the heads in the house. What really makes The Five L’s different, though, is that they throw in a new twist of Red Hot’s style funk bass leads. It’s a mix that keeps you listening to see what will happen next. With all that and a well produced recording, this CD is one worth checking out." – Prick Magazine (Volume 5, Issue 5) February, 2005.
"…aren’t quite as heavy and grind core-influenced as Slipknot, and they don’t lean as heavily toward the rap aspect of rap metal like Limp Bizkit. In other words, they are a happy medium…there is an interesting dynamic going on between the two vocalists." - Alan Maready, Encore Magazine
"They remind me of a mix of say Snot and Incubus' S.C.I.E.N.C.E. CD. It's good stuff." - A.M. "Rex" Donati, Head of College Promotion / Digerati; Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc.
"A Band that each day takes another step to becoming a huge national act." - Nighttribesinc.tripod.com
"Love the music, especially the scratching and hip/hop feel to the Old Skool Mettallica rifts. Very
cool." - onlinemusic.au.com (Australia)
"…the kind of music that makes you wanna’ grab somebody by their hair and rip it out of their scalp. I’m sorry, while listening to "Napalm Bomb" I had to go and beat the living pulp out of some people. Now I feel better thanks to The Five L’s." – Chris Horton on the 1/15/05 SLAB Music Radio Show broadcast (www.SLABmusic.com). |
