Brutus: All Roads Lead To Rome – seminew album

If understood correctly, ‘All Roads Lead To Rome’, debut album by Egypt's BRUTUS, was released back in May 2010. It can be streamed in its entirety and downloaded (if registered) at this location (Indiefonica) as of now. The band, formed in 2007 in Cairo, Egypt, is comprised of four musicians from four different parts of the world: Al (drums) hails from Ireland, guitarist Wez is from Egypt, T (guitar) comes from Russia and Bassam (vocals) is Palestinian.

They describe their music as “heavy, dark, hard-hitting, modern sounding, a bit old-school, not technical but demanding where necessary”: “We wanted to give something people can seriously headbang to, get their blood pumping, and release all that pent up aggression from living the daily grind during these hard times,” explained guitarist T. “We don’t really have a particular message but at the same time we would like to let everyone know about the bullshit that we see in our lives everyday. There are several world political references in our song titles but the lyrics are just catharsis for whoever wrote the words; basically, thoughts on personal struggles, expressed in different ways. Some of it is straightforward some not really, like a stream of consciousness, but who said it’s supposed to make sense anyway.”