In this episode, we focus on metal albums dealing with classic sound merged with varied deviations. Six bands offer their points on melting metals into alloys, taking old school sound and not hesitating to modernize it.
1. Death Denied – Through Waters, Through Flames (2022)
🇵🇱 The first item to put into our melting pot is an album coming from Łódź, Poland. The local quartet laid the foundation of their constructions with dense riffs. They connect trends from hard rock, stoner and free variations of metal. It sounds quite convincing and eclectic. Sometimes it’s catchy enough for headbanging. Although, The sound stays solid in other compositions. It’s a perfect alloy to start our process as the idea of going out of the concrete genre works well with this band.
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2. Auralayer – Thousand Petals (2023)
🇺🇸 Let’s add more psychedelia and viscous sound. Our next guests from South Carolina brought a thousand petals with them. They are eager to throw all this stuff at the audience. Get ready to feel this metal flower shower. Even if this trio does not go headlong into heavy metal, the guys periodically do use its toxic rhythm. However, we are invited to dance to trash. That’s the title of the song from this album and obviously it makes some sense.
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3. Queen Marsa – I Am The Land (2023)
🇪🇸 Now we’ll take a quick trip to Mallorca. Well, not a quick one indeed as the debut full-length album from the local quintet deserves to be listened to in its entirety. It occurred to be longer than the debut EP, although the eight punchy tracks fly by quickly. If you wish, you can even catch hints of blues here, as well as a kind of sludge. However, you will not find anything like this in the pure form in this melt. Everything is thoroughly prepared for your groovy delight.
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4. Astronomie – Interstellar Nomad (2023)
🇦🇺 The act from Melbourne continues the story. These lads are dealing with space exploration since the year 2017. Launching their heavy-duty grunge jet, the band perfectly reached the orbit. The crew worked out each nuance and the “Interstellar Nomad” album is worth a deep acquaintance with. Investigating it riff by riff, you’ll become overwhelmed pretty soon. Then, the next stage comes. It’s a pure enjoyment, surrounded by the stars, the comets and charged asteroids. Beware of explosions!
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5. Blood Lightning – Blood Lightning (2023)
🇺🇸 The Boston based brigade is perhaps the most faithful to the heavy metal canons of any of the members on this set. Wait a second, what are the canons here? Within this not so long opus, the pendulum manages to swing in opposite directions. Firstly, slowing down to ghostly doom and then accelerating into something pumped up. By the way, you are welcomed to find out who of well-known personalities in the rock and metal community had a hand in the album.
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6. Horndal – Head Hammer Man (2024)
🇸🇪 The Swedes have their own course in the ocean of metal. They swim into any seas they observe through their spyglasses. One might argue that the band follows the pioneers. In the same time, they refrain from copying the heritage. The concept of the album is based on a tragic story from more than a century ago. Moreover, the correspondent book was prepared and published along with the record. Together with the group, we experience this event on the brink of civil war.
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