November 05, 2023, 01:12:09 AM Last Edit: November 05, 2023, 03:39:18 AM by Eoin McLove
I've been aware of this band's name and cool artwork through Svart Records updates but never checked them out for whatever reason. Today I clicked on the new album (on Nuclear Blast I think) and was very surprised. I thought they were going to be some sort of retro hippy prog folk, not balls to the wall hard rock. They sound not a million miles (nor a thousand, nor maybe even a hundred or ten) away from Ghost at their more hard rocking and are similar to Melbourne's True Believer as well, which is more likely to be coincidence. I really like the old spooky folk horror lyrics and aesthetics too- you can seldom go far wrong with that. I think I'll have to keep an eye out for their CDs GOING FORWARD! 

https://youtu.be/FpfcWG9hocI?si=V7LgErwjlsSavQKy

Yeah I've been meaning to check them out, kind of ignored them when they first came out as I thought they were going to be standard stoner stuff judging by the name, first track sounds cool there though.

I see Metal Archives has them listed as stoner. Maybe the earlier stuff is but this one sounds to me like classic rock, 80 hair/heavy metal and prog. I don't hear any obvious stoner references.

Good catchy doomy band. Looking forward to giving the new one a spin.

Gigs announced for Dublin, Belfast and Limerick in May.