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ALBUM REVIEW: Green Lung – Necropolitan

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British Neo-Classic Rock band Green Lung perform the ultimate tribute to Black Sabbath and NWOBHM pioneers with Necropolitan, the latest from Nuclear Blast Records – and it’s a banger.

“Open the Helmouth” slowly brings you into the album, a spooky chant on slow riffs, building to “Dance to the Grave,” an upbeat Sabbath-esque rant against what AI and far-right technocrats are doing to us and the planet. Excellent sing-along with a monster guitar solo (I think so, it ends a bit Theramin-y as it ends. Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Witchsorrow – The Devil and All His Works

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Witchsorrow’s last album saw the band taking the throb of Electric Wizard and giving it the grit of High on Fire. They changed up the strain of weed they were smoking when working on their newest album The Devil And All His Works (Church Road Records), as they take a turn down a darker path that is haunted by subtle bits of psychedelia. The opening track sprawls out into eleven minutes of hypnotic rumbling and pulses punctuated by a more deliberate stomp. It sounds great, though it leans more into the sounds summoned here rather than offering anything hooky. They saved the longest for first, since the rest of the album is more compact for Doom Metal hovering around the eight-minute mark per song. Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: A.A. Williams – Solstice

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A.A. Williams raised the bar for herself with 2020’s Forever Blue, making it the album that Solstice (Reigning Phoenix Music) finds itself going head-to-head with. “Poison” opens the album with the kind of brooding apocalyptic simmer that makes it clear she is not just another haunted Folk crooner, as it locks into a solid groove. There is a more depressive vibe to the second song that carries a slight drone to the minimal arrangement, giving her vocals room before swelling into something that sonically has more in common with post-Rock. “Little By Little” has more of a groove, and even with the synths darkening things in the background, it is the most accessible song thus far, thanks to how the vocals interplay with the drums, as the guitars slowly build to expand the dynamics. Continue reading →