TEN FOOT WIZARD are a Heavy Blues Rock band from Manchester (England) with a penchant
for tasty groove-heavy riffs and “Return to the Infinite” is their debut album
released a couple of months ago.
From the
first notes of opener “Rise from your Grave” one can quickly feel that we’ve
got here a band whose bluesy beard rock owes as much to classic stuff like
Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin or even The Doors, as to more contemporary acts
like Clutch, Orange Goblin, Kyuss or Danzig…
I would add
“but not only…” because the music of T.F.W. is definitely more than a vulgar
addition of influences without inspiration, textures and flavor ! Edgy, thick
and burning for the most parts with hooky guitars and warm whiskey-soaked
vocals, the tempo can occasionally slow down, the tone getting darkened and
eying towards sweet and throbbing psychedelia (“Six Feet Rising” and the
excellent title song “Return to the Infinite”). Also what makes TFW interesting
and slightly different - from many upcoming bands from the genre - is that
there’s nothing Metal at all that can be found in here, just blues and groove
blended with pure heaviness !!! With T.F.W. we've got here another english band of the highest order…
COLOSSUS is
a Swedish trio from Stockholm and their 1st album “Wake” has been
released in April via Perennity rds… The guys describe their music as
Progressive Sludge - which must be right if we consider some influences heard
here and there from Mastodon, The Sword, Tool and Baroness…
Before
thinking about anything progressive, the first thing to have in mind is that
COLOSSUS is a massive and roaring machine, with vibrant guitars and
impressively hammering drums !!! progressive, yes, but with a well measured sense
of intricacy and variations in the moods, rather than a technical demonstration
of unbridled instrumentation and/or a succession of different chapters within a single song who in
the end often lead to loose its dramatic essence. The guys focus on
the dynamic and catchiness of their songs with strength and conviction and they
are pretty good and promising at it.
Even if the
apparition of LG Petrov from Entombed, on “Pillars of Eternity”, is certainly a nice wink to their early
(death) Metal years as fans, there’s no special highlight here, but everything
flows well and the band delivers cohesively an hard hitting debut !!!
It's been a very long time since I heard singing in polish, what i heard back then was raw and furious HC/Punk which certainly didn't served the hidden and relative (?) beauty of this language, cause here it's often very lyrical and melodic, dry and low droning too which is giving a special touch to an overall that generally sounds pretty american and Hommesque in particular...
Need some good kick-ass songs with a subtle Desert Rock touch interspersed with nice melodic moments ? then you simply have to check out this great album !
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