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2024 really was a golden year for melodic black metal, huh?
France is known for its medieval folk-melodic black metal fusions such as Véhémence of which I loved the last record, so this isn't a surprise for me. This one is kind of the Children of Bodom of the pack though - to explain myself, they're from the melodeath scene but they always seemed to play power metal with a death flair instead of the opposite. Well this is blackened power/folk metal with a strong ... read more
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What is it with legacy bands, comeback albums and having no sound engineers?
I know some people are already calling this "old-school production", garage-like or the classic sound. It's obviously not. Old-school tone sounds great even on midtempo parts, the vocals aren't this flawed and they don't crush the mix as soon as they appear, plus you can generally hear an old-school band's rhythm section. Here, things get so bad that even the drums are barely present, ... read more
What a great chorus that honestly could have carried the whole track. But they didn't do that, the second verse especially being a really great moment. I'm still a bit mixed on these busy productions and stupidly low guitar tones but if anyone would make it work it is a former BMTH member.
Deep Purple discography part 4 : rock gets harder but they keep ahead.
Ritchie Blackmore seemingly always wanted the band to explore heavier territory even during the days of Mark I. Turns out he was right. As production evolved, trends turned away from the hippie dreams of a better world and the mood overall got worse than the revolutionary 1968, hard rock progressively evolved to a much heavier form where psychedelic elements were now an afterthought, only serving as the historic reason why ... read more
Deep Purple discography part 3 : somehow more psych, more hard rock and more classical at the same time.
What would be known soon as Deep Purple Mark I, the lineup featuring Rod Evans on vocals and Nick Simper on bass, wrapped things up after this. Ritchie Blackmore wanted to go harder and Rod Evans's vocals simply didn't allow it. It's a bit of a what-could-have-been for this more eclectic and softer incarnation of the band who are still somewhat searching for their sound on ... read more
Deep Purple discography part 2 : a transition between the psych of Shades and classical prog rock to come.
The debut of the band, Shades of Deep Purple, sounds like they took a throw-shit-at-the-wall approach to see what stuck. There's a lot of influences from blues to pop rock to early psych, many covers and many different directions the band could have taken from there. Unfortunately, the times were pretty unforgiving and Hush's success overseas meant they needed a new album for ... read more
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