HARPIES - LIE DOWN

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Harpies – Lie Down
Logo Magazine
I’ve often lain awake at night wondering what Republica would sound like if they had been corrupted by Queens of The Stone Age. The prospect of the look on Saffron’s face as Nick Oliveri waved his chopper around would have me giggling for hours. Actually, I made that all up, but you have to start a review somewhere, and how else can I get that juxtaposition of opposites to work? That’s exactly what Harpies do, taking polar opposites and running them full pelt at each other just to watch the carnage. They do the same thing with Kim Wilde and Sikth by the way, and that’s just as much fun. The dirty/sweet routine has been done before, notably by Sugarcoma (officially the holders of the title ‘the Worst Band I Have Ever Seen’) but now I’ve heard her, I confidently proclaim Nicky Honey as possessing officially the dirtiest and sweetest voice on the planet.
Rick Deckard

Harpies – Lie Down
Organ Magazine SINGLE OF THE WEEK
Ahh please don’t let us down Harpies …. Whooosh, no arrghhhhh – another pummeling reign of musical body blows and silky seduction sonic mindgame playing mutilations. No compromise here, Harpies are still dealing the deal, all is indeed well with the world. Scathing brutal beauty, skin peeling positive violent messed up nu-metal that isn’t waiting around for the rulebook to thell them what they should do next. Second rather overdue single from a band who (as we keep on telling you) have been consistently dropping tasty demos and things for more than a couple of years now. Hey look, you can be emotional and reflective with out doing the emo-metal by numbers thing- second track here Station does everything you want it to and it does it with clever emotional light and shade and pain and juvenile violence and yes indeed, Birmingham’s Harpies never ever let us down – out on Feb 16th, go get it.

Harpies – Lie Down
Scootering Magazine
With a seemingly ever-changing line up of musicians coming and going, The Harpies have stablised to record this wicked new single. Full on, no holds barred kick ass punk tinged rock, a behemoth of a song.
Sargie

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Harpies - Lie Down
Metal News
We don't get many female artists here to review, so I was pleased and quite interested in finding out that harpies is not fronted by one woman, but by two.

This is the second single by Birmingham's (UK) Harpies, and I really don't know how to describe it. Some intricate guitar work and some fantastic vocals harmonies pave way for some aggressive, dual screaming similar in style to Raging Speedhorn if they had two women vocalists instead.

There's only a couple of tracks on here so it shouldn't cost that much to pick this up as it provides a great intro to the band. There's not much more I can say really other than if the rest of their forthcoming album is going to be anything like this then Harpies will definitely attract some interest.
Unknown - Rating: 6/10

Harpies - Lie Down
Sounds XP
In early Greek myths, Harpies were beautiful, winged maidens. Only later did they become monsters with the faces of ugly crones, inflicting punishment and torment. Bit like Madonna then. Nicola Honey and Laura Westwood, twin vocalists of Brummy hardcore exponents Harpies, somehow combine both as they alternate between mesmerising ethereal melodies and ferocious demonic screaming that would scare the shit out of Raging Speedhorn. Similarly the music veers from deceptively mellow and dreamy to brutal pummelling riffing that will have heads exploding Scanners-style across the land. Given half a chance they’d eat Slipknot for breakfast and crap their fetid remains into the netherworld. And that can only be a good thing.
Graham S

Harpies - Lie Down
Kerrang
IN GREEK mythology, Harpies were winged maidens who later became winged monsters. And while we're not suggesting that the two front-women in this oppressivley heavy five-piece are unsightly, their harsh screaming sounds seem to come from a very dark and depressing place indeed. If you're looking for the kind of mutated metal sounds created by SikTh and Slipnot but with a feminine touch, look no further.
Three K's
James Sherry

Harpies - Lie Down
Metal Hammer
Birmingham based and extreme to fuck, Harpies are here to destroy your ears. Laura Westwood and Nicola Honey sing sweetly to lull you into a false sense of security before launching the kind of scream aural assault that makes Mudvayne sound slightly limp wristed. We can only presume Nicola's surname is ironic. This is black music from the Black country. 8/10
John Doran

Harpies - Lie Down
Black Velvet
With a new drummer joining the band and a debut full-length release in the pipeline, 2004 looks to be a good year for Harpies. The music has some eerie, heavy metal,calm verses leading up to loud and in-your-face choruses that work work well together and accompanies by the cocal assault of Laura Westwood and Nicola Honey creat some serious shit-your-pants rock. Three Hearts
Martyn Hilliam

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