Nitrate - 'Tough Guys Don’t Cry' Single Review
Reviewed by Iain McArthur • 30 October 2024
Nitrate’s ‘Feel the Heat’ album was the melodic rock highlight of the year last year and now there’s a deluxe edition coming out digitally on 20th December 2024.
The big bonus is that they are adding on a ballad that somehow didn’t make the cut for the original. You can check it out in a lyric video and you will then doubtless be wondering why it was left off in the first place. I can probably answer that with a question: which of the fantastic tracks on the original would you leave out to make room for it? I really hate to use the cliché “all killer, no filler, Ben Stiller” or whatever, but each song really is a beauty.
Presumably ‘Tough Guys Don’t Cry’ was also written by the incredible Martin brothers and Alexander Strandell’ s vocals are again spot on. I believe Alexander has also done the vocals for the upcoming Lionville album too.
Have a listen below. If you’ve got the album top it up. If you missed it last year, give your head a wobble. Enjoy.
The band actually performed at the Firefest prequel Tower of Fire earlier this year. It would be wonderful if they could do more of that too.