Niro Knox’s newest single, “Save Me,” is a great experience from start to finish. This track, which serves as the title piece for his upcoming album due out in May of 2024, hits like a thunderbolt from the very beginning. Niro’s vocals are powerful and will still be around your mind for some time long after the song has ended.
What makes “Save Me” amazing though is its raw energy. From start to finish, this one is a rollercoaster ride of emotions carried by slick production that screams professionalism. The instruments are incredible with guitars and drums burning behind Niro’s impassioned delivery. It includes infectious rhythms on a groovy bassline that anchors the track impressively.
One of the highlights of “Save Me” is a scorching guitar solo that perfectly demonstrates Niro’s talent on strings. But these melodies capture differently beyond technical prowess. Each note seems meaningful; it takes you further into the heart of the song. The soul of Niro Knox’s journey from his Israeli roots to his love affair with rock ‘n’ roll can be found in “Save Me.” It stands testament to his musical evolution influenced by Guns n’ Roses and Pink Floyd among others. Through this particular song, Niro doesn’t just display himself as a guitarist but also reveals himself as a storyteller who weaves personal experiences together to make good music. All in all, anyone looking for genuine rock with heart and soul should check out “Save Me.” With this lead single, Niro Knox would make waves in music as he gears up for his forthcoming album.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Niro Knox is an enigma. A singer, songwriter, and phenomenal guitarist, Niro is one of three children – he has an elder, and younger, sister – and the son of parents who were both born in Israel in the early 1950s, and, whilst he himself was born in Israel, he’d already made a move to Nigeria by the age of two. Nine years later, upon his return to his homeland, he fell in love with rock ‘n’ roll, and three years after that, he persuaded his father to buy him a guitar – “a shitty black Ibanez” – so he could impress a girl, who also liked rock ‘n’ roll. “I had to get her attention somehow,” he says now, “so I practised every day for six hours solid.” Then, he saw a video of Guns ‘n’ Roses – “a wall of distortion, and a good groove” – and he was hooked. He joined a band called Brain Damage, but dislocated his index finger in a nightclub brawl – “the best thing that could have happened to me, musically, ‘cos I had to refocus on traditional blues-playing, become less technical, more feel-y, like my heroes, Slash, Joe Perry, and Jimmy Page” – before quitting to form Jimmi NonStop. More importantly, by now, he had ‘survived’ school, although in this instance, this is not just an expression, as ‘survive’ needs to be understood in its most literal sense: in one year alone, whilst Niro schooled, 48 local school buses exploded.
