Music freely Throne Away

THRONE Away has a new album out called Terminals and wants everybody to hear it. So the band has released the entire collection of songs for free online at www.purevolume.com/throneaway.

“We released the album for free so everybody could listen. We want people to relate to the emotions and lyrics on Terminals. We want to remind people about love and that love is free,” explains 19-year-old lead singer Emir Syazwan.

The rest of the band is rounded up by guitarist Ian Koren, 21, and drummer Rudy Khaw, 23.

The band guys are young but the music on Terminals is anything but juvenile. Throne Away displays a mature knack for writing songs and offer interesting song structures. There’s something here for fans of everything from Fall Out Boy to Incubus, from the hard-rocking title track to the sweet sentiments on Panda Love and the incredibly catchy Goldfingers.

Throne Away really took to heart the old saying of variety being the spice of life. “It is diverse, there’s something for everyone,” Koren agrees.

There’s also a strong tinge of late 90s music influences.

“We intentionally made the sound and production of our album similar to those that were released in the 90s. Some of us were listening to a lot of music from that era while we were writing and recording the album,” says Koren.

But drummer Khaw disagrees: “I’d say my style is more influenced by 80s disco mixed with my punk roots.

“When we were working on this new album, I was listening to more R&B and hip hop, I wanted to play differently and we were growing as musicians. Emir and I were listening to Frank Sintra and the Rat Pack then going back to something heavy like Senses Fail, which shows the wide scope we had.”

The group previously released an EP called This Accident Was Meant To Be in 2003 and hit several milestones including releasing a music video from that EP shot in Bangkok and playing Rock The World 7 in 2006.

Now with a new album released, the band easily seems poised to gain more notoriety. The problem with that though is Emir and Koren are in Britain and the US respectively, furthering their studies.

“The band is not breaking up,” Koren says, “we just won’t be doing anything for the rest of 2008 and 2009.”

“We’re taking a break but when we’re reunited, something revolutionary is going to happen,” promises Emir.

So while you won’t be able to catch Throne Away performing anywhere for the time being, the group has released a very interesting album for the masses to check out. You can’t really complain about the price either.