In Case Of Fire

KERRANG! Magazine (Emma Johnston)..KKKKK (Jan 08)
Northern Irish upstarts set the standard for rock in 2008.
While the vast majority of London is shut up indoors detoxing in a post Christmas cloud of guilt and self-improvement, at this tiny Camden Town venue there is magic in the air. Because tonight, In Case Of Fire - write down that name, you're going to want to remember it - prove themselves one of the best new bands in Britain.
Watching In Case Of Fire, you get a similar feeling to watching Muse back in 1999, where despite the lowly venues it's obvious that there's a special talent at play, ready to catapult them to the top of their game. They're faced with a less than animated, music industry heavy crowd, but with their focused passion, note-perfect musicianship and a charisma that simply can't be faked, they couldbe playing a Download headline set. In their heads, they probably already are.
The Muse comparison goes further than just the scale of this trio's ambition. Musically there are no limits as they flit from the baroque flourishes of opener 'This Time We Stand' to the jolting marriage of woozy stoner rock and visceral, unhinged At The Drive-In-style post-hardcore on 'Align The Planets', all fattened with an underlying squelchy funk to rocket things along. Perfectly chosen samples plug the silences between songs, never allowing the momentum to slow, and 'The Cleansing', with a riff many would sell their soul to write, is a rock club hit of the near future. As for the band themselves, they look like a gang you'd long to be apart of, cool without trying, and cocksure of themselves. As well they might be. Standing neatly outside of any trend, In Case Of Fire are a cult waiting to happen.
Music Week 31/10/07
"Paul Brannigan, Kerrang!: “There are a load of great new British bands around right now like Glamour Of The Kill. But the best new band I’ve heard in ages are In Case Of Fire, they’re from Northern Ireland and they’ve recorded an amazing album which deserves a wider audience.”"
Planetsound (Ch4 Television, UK) 31/10/07
It’s hard to recall a more savage, unerringly brutal debut than this offering from In Case Of Fire. This is stadium-sized rock; combining the theatrical pomp of Muse with the raw power of vintage Therapy, the trio sound like they were born to rawk their way onto playlists all across America. Call it melodic metal, call it a Queens of The Stone Age rip-off... either way, these noisy young Irishmen are going to detonate over2008 like an H-bomb.
Charlotte Dryden - Alternative Ulster, Iss No 32.
"In Case Of Fire are immense - perhaps a little serious - but immense, this is a band staring in the face of commercial music so intensely, that commercial music is buckling, blinking and running away screaming for its mummy. This is racket with a soul; underneath huge waterfalls of guitar are songs like 'Second Revelation'. Fast furious stuff that people are gonna fall in love with."
Planetsound (Ch4 Television, UK) 22/06 Score-8/10
"The Irish trio won a recent Kerrang! contest getting to support Fightstar. A particularly great prize, as their crunching ebullient rock would probably have blown Fightstar away. Heavy enough thanks to some Cedric Bixler-esque vocals to appeal to the devoted, light enough to appeal to Thursday fans, they've got all bases covered without it sounding forced.
Potentially big, certainly hot." John Earls