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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Pyramidal (Lay Bare Recordings LBR22)


The Spanish band, Pyramidal are back with another limited edition release in only 250 copies.  They are probably my favourite band from Spain so I always am excited to hear the next one. Anyway, Visions of an Astral Journey starts this record off and you might have heard an early version if you have the bands Live from the Psychedelic Network release.  IT starts smoothly with some nice sax the melts in with the spacey guitar and after about a minute, the rhythm changes with a harder guitar as one plays the riff and one the wah guitar. Later the track does King Crimson with some complex changes, wild sax and intense parts. Fantastic track with so many cool parts. Creatures of the Ancient World starts a lot like the last track and has many similarities at the start and then a sort of middle eastern dreamy section with some vocals takes you on a trip across the desert sands before you crash into the palm tree and get blasted back into the space rock with some great guitar playing. Another track to just get lost in. Great build up at the end.

The 3rd track starts with a riff like from Deep Space Riders and then goes into a quite heavy section a lot like Assassins of Allah by Hawkwind but then the band goes into their own direction with an almost Spanish acoustic guitar and then back to the sort of complex rhythms after a great guitar solo section. The 4th and last track, Alussa Infinity is one of the bands heaviest track and features some quite shouty vocals, like nothing to ever appear before on one of their records. Don’t be fooled though as the track goes into a long melodic section til the end. Intense stuff and another fantastic record. I would love to see them live again. Portugal is not that far away. Please come play guys. This will for sure be one of my fave records this year.


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