Charming and distorted, melodic and heavy, fast-paced yet dreamy all at once – Kivo Van Twist is an enchanting vampire rock band, whose focus blends storytelling, entertainment and skill quite seamlessly, across a growing catalogue of original songs.
Most recently, Kivo Van Twist launched the single and video for Lay Down, capturing the energy and intentions of the band quite perfectly. From surf-rock hooks and grooves to alternative sentiments and lashings of personality, the performative wonder and musicality of Kivo Van Twist is gripping, and impressively unique.
Featuring a captivating frontman and long-form but catchy and versatile vocals, Lay Down makes its way through progressive metal power chords, verses and riffs, towards a mighty pop-rock anthem of a hook. It’s an easy resolve to conclude the story and magic of the lyrics, and that snappy chorus moment helps naturally cement the song in your mind.
Exploring the world of vampires with a whole-hearted and fully characterised approach, Kivo Van Twist is a seductive and stylish classic rock band on the one hand, but is a conceptually purposeful and unorthodox, original expression of a whole new world on the other. Their mission is to prompt fans to unleash their dark side in unison with the band, and the huge earworm and structural prowess of a rather brilliantly written and faultlessly performed Lay Down is a fine testament to that goal.
Eclecticism of writing is a huge selling point for Kivo Van Twist, and this much is clear from the mood switch for the evocative and beautiful single and video Twilight Tears – another gripping story and song that’s perfectly crafted and performed by the band, with an immense and soulful guitar solo, and which also ticks a set of new boxes alongside the anthemic Lay Down.
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