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Adrian - guitar
Steve - drums
Jase - bass
Emile - vocals
After starting playing shows only last September, under the name of Snow and Lights, Chariots quickly porgressed into the chaos that rages through your ears today. Their self released EP gained them rave reviews from a handful of underground magazines, as well as comparisons to the likes of Orchid and Neil Perry, and have wowed crowds wherever people have been daring enough to put them on.
Their debut album, Daybreak, was released on Big Scary Monsters in November 2005. The band unfortunately broke up in 2006 but not before recording a final EP which has just been released on Holy Roar Records
 Daybreak 
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Not any more unfortunately
Rock Sound
So powerful a record is ‘Daybreak’ that it can see off even the mightiest of opponents - it’s the record Converge’s ‘You Fail Me’ should have been, an unrelenting hurricane of uncompromising metallic hardcore that pulls not one punch. It’s raw, loud, passionate and utterly empowering. Vocalist Emile possesses the kind of skin-shredding roar that could re-awaken the dead, whilst those around him clearly have supernatural powers, such is the malevolence they conjure. Run for your life.
Terrorizer
Daybreak is a work more accomplished than many of their further-down-the-line peers could even dream of creating. Dubbed rather incisively by their press release as ‘rock in its most inhospitable form’, Chariots make a racket so assuredly laced with dissonance and chaos that any notions of them being just another troop of ‘Jane Doe’ worshipping scene kids are instantly cast asunder. (8/10)
The Communion
The band produces a force which seems to carry a deadly impetus and an almost insane maturity when you consider the age of the members and the actual band itself. It comes across brilliantly on record, but has a completely different impact when you see them live, something recommended. An exceptional debut full length from a band who should go from strength to strength. (8/10)
Drowned In Sound
Chariots want to re-educate you; they want to force your NME-approved ‘extremo’ - whatever the fuck that means - right back down the journalists’ throats until they’re shitting flopping fringes. Think raw, Orchid-meets-Drive Like Jehu buzzsaw guitars and PMFS-style banshee shrieks - the spilling of guts, lyrically, about whatever’s really bugging vocalist xEmilex (check the straight-edge name, kids) at the time
Planet Loud
One review I’ve read makes the comment that this is the record Converge’s ‘You Fail Me’ should have been, and while this may seem like another example of journalistic over-enthusiasm, it really isn’t. You see ‘Daybreak’ is right up there with anything that Converge, or any other band of their ilk for that matter, have ever produced
Collective Zine
Chariots are without a doubt one of the best bands around.
Europunk
Probably the only metal/hardcore album I need right now... Chariots have created an album that’s challenging to listen to, yet beautiful in both structure and aesthetics. With heavy guitar and desperate vocals and lyrics
Ragazzi Zine
Chariots rip out your flesh and throw it around wildly.
Big Cheese
With a little bit of luck, Chariots could be the band of 2005. Simmering away on the fringes until now, their album 'Daybreak' sees their promise realised, sounding like the offspring of At The Drive-In, Fugazi and JR Ewing on crack.
Buzz Magazine
Watford formed quartet Chariots have created a terrific debutalbum of the guttural, screamed strain of 'true' emo. The serrated chaos of Converge is hinted at too, as well as a yen for the rumbling Godspeed! atmosphere. Elements strapped together like explosives to a suicide bomber. (4/5)
Music And Stuff
This is dangerous. This is pure violence. Abrasive at heart, raw to the bone, this is one of the most intense albums ever released.