Lethal Bizzle goes to the Gallows

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Remember the early noughties, when it was all rap-rock / nu-metal, and “collabos” between people like Diddy and Jimmy Page / Dave Grohl? The legacy of these genre-hopping days, used to successful effect by Klaxons recently, seems to be manifesting itself in a few pretty exciting records at the moment.
First there’s Hadouken!’s “Leap Of Faith”, which retains a few of the bleeps and bloops you’d associate with their dayglo-hoodied racket, but for the most part is a great slab of ROCK.
Then there’s the new collaboration between Hemel Hempstead punk nutters Gallows and grime mainstay Lethal Bizzle. It. Is. Brilliant.

A kind-of cover of The Ruts’ “Staring At The Rude Boys”, it maintains a high-level of screamy amazingness throughout and is taken to a hitherto unimagined next level when Bizzle barrels in. And, like all the best songs, it ends far too soon.
Watch the video below - you don’t see stuff like this hitting the mainstream too much these days. Although with Gallows frontman Frank Carter taking the No.1 spot on NME’s infuriating “Cool List”, it looks like we might be hearing a lot more of it…

[Video provided by Gallows]