Showing posts with label Forest of Legend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Forest of Legend. Show all posts
Sunday, November 12, 2017
LP Review: Forest of Legend by Forest of Legend
Back in June of 2015, we said of Forest of Legend's demo that they 'have the potential in them to make an incredible record. Watch this space'. Well, we write this review with big gloating grins on our faces, the guys have come through with the goods!
The three piece Virginians have taken the doom genre by the scruff of the neck and spat bile down it's throat with their self-titled debut. The vocals of Gage Shanahan are dirty and pissed off, giving the drawn out riffs an added urgency of anger and guttural desperation that builds each crushing riff into a crashing display of power, prevalant on opening track 'Lightbringer' with elements of sludge thrown into their standard heavy doom riffing. To give these guys just a 'doom' would do a disservice to their other exploratory sounds as they often trail off into psych guitar solos or power riffs that will beat your brain to mush.
As the crawling 'Cursed By Night' rains down upon you, you begin to realise that these guys mean some serious business. Often elements of Sleep and Black Sabbath are at the forefront of what they do, but the references to their peers are a tribute, not a rip off, as layers of orgasmically crushing riffing comes over you in waves, and you accept it full force. With all tracks landing between 7-8 minutes in length, it's not a record for the feint hearted. The band flitter between slightly high tempo doom ('Neptune's Glacier')and the slow-crushing stuff we all adore ('Divine Greataxe') and they feed so well into one another.
Each track is a powerhouse standout, with tracks 'Bane of the Black Lung', 'Holy Throne' and 'Brotherhood of the Black Sun' all warranting the same superlatives such as "heavy as fuck", "crushing our spines" and "riff upon riff upon riff of glorious riffs". We said these guys would make something special, and how right we were. One of the underground doom albums of the year.
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Three New Bands To Burn One To
Ruins
This New Jersey three-piece (Mike Marra. Joe Heggie.
Tyler White) play some heavy-ass instrumental stoner jams often veering onto
the metal tracks of the genre. The three songs on offer on their demo see the
band at a remarkably advanced stage of their musicianship with a sound steeped in
layers of riffs and technical ability, albeit hidden slightly under weak
production. The band themselves call it a taste of things to come, and we can’t
wait to see what they have in store for us in the future.
Forest of Legend
The Sleep influences are heavy with this Virginia
three-piece doom power band as heavy smoked engulfed riffs embody the very
essence of the group. All these heavy riffs and yelling vocals are evident on
their superb demo EP which sees the trio playing thick slabs of doom with Black
Sabbath style song-writing amongst the guitar riffs that go straight for the
kill. Forest Of Legend have the potential in them to make an incredible record.
Watch this space.
Like a Mountain, Like a Tiger
Heavy heavy heavy psych from fantastic Pennsylvanian duo Like
a Mountain, Like a Tiger! Their recently released EP/1 might just have two
tracks on offer, but they showcase a sound from a band on the cusp of
greatness. Whether it’s the laid back spaced out instrumental jams of droning psychedelia,
or the crushing heavy riffs and very rare distorted vocal samplings that get
your heart pounding, this is the band for you.
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