First World Hunger - 'Strawberry Tiger'

If you haven't heard of up and coming rap metal band First World Hunger then get your finger out of your anus and look them up! This seven piece Scottish metal monster is a must if you like rap, hip hop and technical metal. Half of the band hail from sunny Falkirk and the rest come from Glasgow.

This is the first video from the boys, and can I say they have booted it out of the park! The two vocalist work amazingly along with the rest of the bands musical mayhem, the song is very well structured and everything is as clear as a bell. You can hear there is a lot going on in this track from the machine gun rapping of Colin and Bre, then switching to guttural roars seamlessly to Dave and Blair's complex guitar, which is heavy A.F. to Matt's bombarding bass. Adam's amazing tub thumping and Alan's well placed samples and synths is everything you need in a great track.

This is certainly a head nodder, and I'm the first to admit that I'm not a fan of rap metal although I do dabble from time to time, but I can't stop listening to this song it is very very impressive. So if you haven't heard it yet I strongly urge you to give it a listen, and give the guys some support.

I got the dudes to give me a small bio of what they do in the band and what there influences are.

This is a band that just aims to be creative as we are all different and bring our own things to the table...
Bre -Vocals
Music I like. Various styles of music. Mainly metal of many styles from Linkin Park, Insomnium, Mudvayne, Pantera, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson and everything In between. Also like rap and hip hop from things like DJ shadow, DJ Krush, Xecutioners, Cypress hill, Eminem, Ice - t and Bodycount. Also like other stuff like Jamiroquai, Lenny Kravitz and Relaxation music with sounds of nature and stuff in it.

Blair - Guitar 1
Bands I like: Coheed & Cambria, Dance Gavin Dance, Circa Survive, I The Mighty, Billy Talent, La Dispute, Hail The Sun, This Will Destroy You, Hobo Johnson, Paramore.

David Hughes - Guitarist 2
First began listening to a variety of metal genres and eventually rap and some classical music. Enjoy and influenced by Between the Buried and Me, Killswitch Engage, Slipknot, Sikth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Trivium, Mudvayne, Within the Ruins, Lamb of God, Ill Niño, Crossfaith, After the Burial, Periphery, Angel Vivaldi, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Bring me the Horizon, Fightstar, Eminem, NWA, Gunship and many more.

Costello - Samples and synths
I’m a multi-instrumentalist, I’ve played all sorts of music in local bands since the days of yore. I grew up listening to a lot of Prog and Metal but I really just like anything with an interesting sound, the weirder the better. Influences: Hiatus Kaiyote, Frank Zappa, Intronaut, Car Bomb, Thundercat, J Dilla, Flying Lotus, Portishead, Captain Beefheart, FKA Twigs, Mudvayne, Deftones, Miles Davis, Jameszoo, Wishbone Ash, basically a load of totally disparate things.

Adam Hammond (Edam) - Primarily drums with additional vocals
Into a large spectrum of music but it's safe to say that any form of progressive music appeals to me. I also love music that comes from the soul, has a lot of atmosphere or on the flip side is plastered with grooves that make you want to move and then pull a calculator out. Some of these bands are: Rush, Pantera, Strapping Young Lad, Mastodon, Intronaut, Killswitch Engage, Opeth, Baroness, Gojira, Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot, Death, Korn, At The Gates, Soundgarden, Devin Townsend, The Doors, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Stevie Wonder, Deep Purple, The Eagles, Grand Funk Railroad, Megadeth and Black Sabbath.

Colin Hughes - Vocals
Influences: Michael Jackson, Slayer, David Bowie, Action Bronson, The Beatles, Limp Bizkit, Obituary, Die Antwoord, Queen, Vanilla Ice, Mayhem, Fightstar, Misfits, 30 Seconds To Mars, Billie Holiday, Ill Nino, Mudvayne, P.O.D, Papa Roach, The Buzzcocks, The Hollies, Queens Of The Stone Age.

Matt Cass. Bass
I like music.

Guitarist - Dave
Bass - Matt
Vocals - Colin
Vocals - Bre
Guitarist - Blair
Drummer - Adam
Samples and fx - Alan

'Strawberry Tiger' is available now on all streaming platforms check it out!