Burning Saviours - Death (2018)
With albums in their catalog dating
back to 2005, there's no question that the Swedish group of Burning
Saviours have a firm handle on the hard rock they play. With this
latest album, they pay homage to some of the forebears who made the
links between original doom metal and hard rock stand out most
clearly, keeping the songs of Death
heavy and theatrically menacing while emphasizing chuggy riffs,
burnishing thick bass slabs, and singing about (what else?) the
inevitable cessation of life.
Though there's a lot of homage filling
the music, it also stands strong as a solid batch of old-school doom
pulled off in fine form. Head-banging beats and hooky riffs are
supplied in ample measure, the amping sounds warm (and pretty close
to period-accurate for the style they're working), and refusing to
stay small when there's a chance to go big with the rocking add up to
an album which comes in without a trace of fear and does everything
it sets out to do. Really, the music explains it better than I
could, so as soon as the album drops (March 9th, through
the good people at Transubstans Records), grab yourself a copy and
get ready to ride a time-traveling train of heavy riffs back to the
days when every piece of metal cover art would look good on the side
of a van.
~ Gabriel
For Fans Of; Black Knight, Candlemass,
Pentagram, Saint Vitus, Salem Mass
~
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