Cold Red Review
The Metal Observer

Basically, I think it’s totally absurd to send out promo copies with only two tracks. For one thing, a reviewer can’t make an entire overview about a band, which has never ever released an album before and furthermore, it’s a waste of money in my opinion. Moreover, it would be really terrible if the two songs were averagely and uninteresting. But I can give all-clear because this is not the case with Niota and their 2-track EP (or should we better say CD-single), both tracks are really good.
 
According the promo sheet, their music lies somewhere between Poison The Well, Deftones and Funeral For A Friend and it’s a fact, that Niota’s sound is somewhere between those acts. The Brits are less melancholic and dramatic than the Deftones indeed, Ben Keenan (Vocals) is way less pathetic singing than a Chino Moreno but he has still a powerful and variable voice. Niota are decently heavier than Funeral For A Friend, in this case, they are best comparable with Poison The Well. But their ability to create songs with diversity and feeling, which are still full of quality and catchiness, keeps up with aforementioned three acts. Paper Fuse and Shatter are two wonderful tracks and they made me anxious for their first full-length.
 
If they can keep up this quality on a longplayer, we can expect a sensational album and a band, which must be count to one of the biggest hopeful newcomers coming from Great Britain. But actually, they are already big hopefuls. Great work, let’s hope that we will get soon more from them.