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Biffy Clyro burst to fame with their gold-selling 2007 debut album Puzzle which went on to shift over 250,000 copies, to the delight of the loyal and passionate fanbase who had been willing them on for the past decade.

A welcome change in the musical climate of TV talent freakshow contestants momentarily setting the gossip world aflutter before plunging back into obscurity, Ayrshire rock trio Biffy Clyro came together in 1995 when childhood friends Simon Neil (vocals/guitar) and twins James (bass/vocals) and Ben Johnston (drums/vocals) started playing music together.

United by a love of underground, experimental rock and post-hardcore bands such as Braid and Karate, along with the starrier likes of Guns’N’Roses and Metallica, they quickly honed their own unique sound, a mind boggling mix of off-kilter tempos, itchy, unpredictable guitars, soulful choruses and feral screams, sewn together into a strange tapestry of sound that sat resolutely apart anything else being made at the time.

Their new album Only Revolutions is, quite simply, a monster of rock. After the overwhelming sadness of Puzzle, which was written in the aftermath of Simon’s mother passing away, Only Revolutions has a sense of joy and determination, from the military thump of feet that heralds in opener The Captain before it slips into an explosion of mammoth riffage, fizzing pop vocals and euphoric horns.