The Seduction is an aggressive quartet comprised of musicians with various influences and backgrounds, forged by countless hours of stereos blaring on Blue Ridge back roads. Relentlessly driven to capture what we feel is the music that pounds in our heads and pulses through our veins. We don’t discriminate. We don’t fit. We’re four dudes writing rock and roll that knows no label.No compromise. No filler. Just gear, beer, and the determination to remain true to what we believe in.Sludgelord ReviewBands like The Seduction are a godsend because they show just how easy it is to rock out. With their new album “You Catch Fire,” the band plugs in and kicks out eleven jams in under an hour, never overstaying their welcome. These tracks grab you by the hair, are all up in your face, and leave no room to breathe. They are in go-mode from front to back, so if it’s high-paced hard rock that you’re looking for, then you’ve stumbled into the right place.Album opener relies solely on its 4/4 stomp, both in and out of the chorus, to get even the short-hairs amongst us head banging. The dudely chants and hardcore screams in “Wolf in the Night” demand attention, relentlessly pushing the song forward like a V8 engine does to a muscle car, elements of Queens of Stone Age are littered with the thickness of other fan favorites like Clutch or Turbonegro, so be prepared for that upbeat beer party. Songs like “Flavor of the Week” and “Hell on Wheels” pass by with simple and extremely catchy riffs, rarely challenging the listener, but with sing-a-longs like these, who needs a challenge?The Seduction has made a nasty ride with the cool kids on their album “You Catch Fire.” There’s nothing sweet here, just business. None of that experimental, genre-bending, endless guitar solo bullshit, just in your face hard rock n’ roll made to help you let loose. So if you’re on your way out to alter your neighbourhood’s serenity and your own state of mind bring The Seduction out with you and revel in the results.The Obelisk ReviewThe tell? The tell is the scream just before North Carolina foursome The Seduction move into the bouncing bridge on “Volga,” which launches their Mechanical Pig Records debut, You Catch Fire. From there, it’s pretty easy to hear the metallic vibe beneath their stoner-punk aesthetic. It comes up again in the breakdown for the later “Hell on Two Wheels,” but it’s there anyway, adding an aggressive edge to the record, which at 53 minutes has plenty of room for the breadth of the rocking highlight centerpiece “Flavor of the Weak” or the depth-charge of the penultimate “Starmageddon” – a few more screams there amid spit-out hardcore shouts – but it’s the meld of these with the party-pit vibe of “Daughter of a Holy Man” and “Irish Flu” that makes You Catch Fire effective in taking cues from some of the West Coast’s heavy methods – some Red Fang, some Queens of the Stone Age — and presenting them with a definitively East Coast punch.Crowd Suffer reviewThe Seduction is Daniel Biggins, Brandon Hamby, Jacob Shelton and Jonathan Owens. This is powerful stuff. I once asked them where they got their name. Before they had a chance to answer, Pants who was also a guest that night on Musical Conversations (and writes the 'Rocking Recipes' With Pants article here at Crowd Surfer), interjected with,"have you heard them?" I like that response, and, at the time of asking, the answer had been,"no, not yet." I'm happy to say that issue has been rectified. This is a heavy album, even though many would not consider them to be a heavy metal band. The dual guitars are what got me. On the one side, the vocal style is very much like Molly Hatchet, yet even though the band also had multiple guitarists, The Seduction approaches the two guitars closer to that of Thin Lizzy. And I like that also. The powerful presentation vocally, I’m happy to say, is not of the overly popular style I call"Puke rock" (because it sounds like the singer is hurling). There are heavy riffs that rock through the album, occasionally chugging along and always with a driving power. Having seen The Seduction at The Milestone on 01/23/2015 for the CD release party of the 'You Catch Fire' album, I can say that the songs not only translate well to the stage, they inspire a great amount of audience participation and the energy is infections. This band does rock!