![]() ![]() It has everything from the fast and furious metallic hardcore of “Human Condition Above Human Opinion” to the doomy dirges of the title track. ![]() (Chad Bowar) Relapse Records Candy – Heaven Is Here (Relapse)Ĭandy return to follow up their 2018 blast of a debut Good To Feel with the next stage in their evolution, Heaven Is Here. The Devils is the latest in a long line of excellent Belphegor albums. It’s a streamlined album clocking in at 36 minutes with maximum variety and minimum filler. Tracks like “Totentanz – Dance Macabre” bring black metal to the forefront while songs such as “Damnation – Höllensturz” deliver mid-paced death metal with some acoustic moments. The balance of their lethal concoctions varies from song to song. Helmuth and Serpenth have developed a distinctive style over the years, creating a brutal blend of death metal and black metal. The gap between Totenritual and their twelfth studio album The Devils was five years, the longest they’ve had. In their 30 year career, Austrian death/black metal legends Belphegor have issued albums every two or three years. ![]() (Gino Sigismondi) Nuclear Blast Belphegor – The Devils (Nuclear Blast) Toss is a couple lyrical detours to Hungary and Brazil for good measure, and Alestorm deliver a globe-trotting treasure trove of headbanging fun – occasionally silly, never less than supremely entertaining. Lyrically, Alestorm sail from the historical seafaring tales of “Magellan’s Expedition” and “The Battle of Cape Fear River,” to the absurd disco metal of “P.A.R.T.Y.” to the downright obscene “Cannonball’. In addition to the expected crushing riffs and synth-orchestral layers, Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum features hurdy-gurdy, violin, and several guest vocalists performing the non-English passages. Imagine a rum-soaked, peg-legged Sabaton and you’re in the neighborhood. What at first glance seems like a one-joke shtick has become a bottomless wineskin of top-notch power metal, drunkenly wed to 1800’s seafaring folk melodies and instrumentation. (Dan Marsicano) Napalm Records Alestorm – Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum (Napalm)Īvast, ye filthy landlubbers! Alestorm return to the high seas of metal with another rollicking collection of heavy hitting sea-shanties. There are several stunning points, including the outstanding minutes-long guitar solo in instrumental closer “To Suns Beyond” and the unrelenting pace of “Cult Axe.” These guys remain committed to their space-driven concept, making sure that the music matches the weightlessness of the cosmos. Though little time has passed between II and III, this isn’t an album of half-baked ideas. It’s total sci-fi worship, a perfect set piece for the smoky atmosphere this Swedish trio are clouded in. This one continues the story that began in 2020’s I EP, as a spaceship and its crew wander through Earth millenniums in the future after going through a rift in the space-time continuum. Interstellar Smoke 10,000 Years – III (Interstellar Smoke)Īlmost a year to the day since 10,000 Years released their first studio album II, the stoner metal group have a new album ready with III. What brings it all together is an almost mystical chemistry, wrought from grueling personal drama and heartbreak that they somehow found a way to turn into some of the most beloved rock & roll of all time.This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from 10,000 Years, Alestorm, Belphegor, Candy, Darkane, Fallen Sanctuary, Mirror Queen, Paganizer, Philosophobia, Projected, Radian, Victorius and Werewolves. Our list of the band’s 50 greatest songs pulls from all these eras. They began as a vehicle for the blues visions of tragic genius Peter Green, continued through fascinating, often overlooked, transitional records during the early Seventies with Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan and Bob Welch, and hit an astonishing peak when songbird Christine McVie, mad drummer Mick Fleetwood and ultra-reliable bassman John McVie hooked up with the Southern California songwriting team of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Days and nights would just go on and on.”īut the soul of the Mac’s magic has always been their songs. Huge amounts of illicit materials, yards and yards of this wretched stuff. “Parties going on all over the house,” John McVie told Rolling Stone in 1977, recalling the making of their classic Rumours LP. Through it all, there’s been brutal romantic blowups and historic levels of drug use. Music obscurity rating mac#Fleetwood Mac have been rock’s greatest soap opera for five decades - from their Sixties origins in the English blues-rock scene to their Seventies reinvention as California rock superstars through their smooth Eighties hits and right up to today. ![]()
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