Those Damn Crows

There’s a song on God Shaped Hole, the fourth album from powerhouse UK rock band Those Damn Crows, that sums up everything about them. The track is called No Surrender and it pulses with defiance and intent. “If you want to achieve, you’ve got to make them believe,” sings TDC frontman Shane Greenhall over pounding, heavy riffs and a barrage of drums. Those sentiments are drawn from bitter experience, but like all the best Those Damn Crows songs, it finds positivity in the struggle.

Those Damn Crows – have earned the right to believe in themselves. In the decade-plus since they formed in the fiercely working class town of Bridgend, South Wales, they’ve gone from wide-eyed hopefuls playing to 20 people at the Camden Barfly to the leading lights of their generation, a genuine modern rock powerhouse spearheading the scene’s current resurgence, notching up a Top 3 album with 2023’s Inhale/Exhale and sharing massive stages with everyone from Queens Of The Stone Age and ZZ Top to the Alice Cooper/Johnny Depp supergroup The Hollywood Vampires and German punk superstars Böhse Onkelz.

It’s the combination of musical power and lyrical depth that sets the Welsh band apart. God Shaped Hole is the sound of a band at the very peak of their powers – but one who are determined to keep building on their achievements.