Russian alt-rockers Apache Rose roar back after a two-year silence with Hello, a thunderous, emotionally charged single. From the very first gritty riff, the track grabs you by the collar as the vibrant guitar work grinds with purpose, while the drums stomp forward like a heartbeat on fire. It’s a big, swaggering sound that could fill arenas, but at its core, Hello is a song about the pain of drifting away—from people, from places, even from your own past.
Frontman Ilya Novokhatskiy delivers vocals that glide with a steady, hypnotic quality, letting the emotion simmer beneath the surface before lifting into a chorus that begs to be shouted back in a crowd. It’s that contrast, calm voice against restless instrumentation, that gives the song its edge. The chorus is dangerously catchy, and just when things begin to settle in the bridge, Apache Rose hits you with a scorching, precision-tight guitar solo by the legendary Korney, a revered figure in Russia’s rock scene. The solo twists the knife on the song’s themes of nostalgia and emotional disconnection.
With echoes of Soundgarden’s emotional weight and Foo Fighters’ punchy urgency, Hello feels like a love letter to grunge and alt-rock’s golden age, but updated with a fresh, modern bite. It’s no surprise this band, raised in Moscow on Western rock, has found a global audience — they wear their influences proudly, but Hello is unmistakably theirs. The single’s artwork, Red Square cloaked in Apache Rose’s bold logo, says it all: home is where the sound is, even when the feeling of home is long gone. Check out this song on Spotify.
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Review by: Naomi Joan