Aaron Champion

As much as I enjoy everything that Protest The Hero has released, I’m never sure if there is much they can do to surprise me. As different as Kezia and Fortress are, they still embody the same base sound that a Protest the Hero record will always have.

Their new record however, Scurrilous, is a complete game changer for the band. In the past, Protest has always been a band more about ideas and because of that, there is always a distance between the band and the listener. The songs are almost academic in the way they are written and the talent of PTH is how they are able to make these intellectual ideas feel urgent.

But with Scurrilous, all that has changed. With this album, they have released a collection of songs that aren’t about ideas, but about people. This is a personal record, period. Its the story of a band who has been slugging it out since they were 13, and released a number 1 record by the time they were 22. Its about being in the same band for literally almost half your life and what that does for you personally, socially and psychologically.

And its great.