This quite cool Belgium band has
released a new record on vinyl in 500 copies with a poster and a sticker and
they are all hand numbered. I have number 338. There are quite a few guest
vocalists and players adding horns, synths, and Fender Rhodes. The record has a
wide range of diverse material on it and starts off with Sahara, which slowly
fades in before the band kicks into an uptempo and intense song but then at the
break it goes into a totally 70s section with horns and keyboards and the vocal
style changes to this very laid back mood from a very powerful vocal before
returning to the power of the start. Cool dynamics. Serpent is an very nice and
melodic instrumental piece, which really picks up at the end. Salvation is the
last track on side A, which has some very powerful lyrics ending with “chocked
on materialism, forced only to see, we’re losing the power to be”.. I like
that.. It starts with some very nice harmony guitars by Philip and Erik, before
the heavy and slow riff kicks in and the vocals, which have a sort of nasty
angry edge to them, to contrast the nice melody of the song. This track
actually reminds me a bit a lot of the Finnish band, Amorphis. It ends with a
long acoustic section. Flip the record over to hear Sands, which starts with a
eastern flute with Fender Rhodes, section before an acoustic guitar section
with a female spoken voice and as the rest of the band joins on this slow
building piece. Cool song. The record ends in a very heavy fashion with the
monster track, Song of Saturn. It has a very heavy riff to start but then
really evolves in a unique way. This is a great record and not what I had
expected at all. It is also released on a CD digipack, which I forgot to
mention before.
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