Leírás
Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Progressive Rock, Doom, Psychedelic Rock,
Limited edition FEKETE színű bakelit lemez LP kiadvány, 2016-os album.
HYPNOTIZING HEAVY METAL, „For None And All” was recorded entirely on analogue tape. No digital editing or computer trickery took place, just many hours of hard live playing. A mix of dreamlike vocals and a masterful mix of guitars and synths produce a truly memorable and hypnotic heavy metal classic.
As any true devotee will recognise, the creation of heavy metal that genuinely chills the blood and raises the goosebumps is about more than carefully constructed stylistic posturing, more than slavish devotion to the diabolus-in-musica rulebook, and more than a devotedly purchased vinyl collection of crypt-kicking classics. It’s a feeling, an atmosphere, and an attitude that together prove hard to quantify, and even harder for the casually acquainted to summon. No such worries for Vancouver’s Spell however, who display on their second full-length and Bad Omen Records debut „For None And All” that they’re in possession of more heart, chutzpah and sinister sleight-of-hand than a dozen of their contemporaries.
Spell, a power-trio comprising Cam Mesmer (lead vocals/bass), Graham McVie (guitars/backing vocals) and Lester Spectre (drums/backing vocals) started out life as Stryker (not to be confused with Striker, the other Canadian metal band who released records on Napalm Records), playing ‘80s-inspired and thrash-damaged metal, before they made the decision to change their moniker to better reflect the more oracular style that was evolving in splendid isolation in British Columbia.
Indeed, whilst the discerning listener will be able to hear traces of the mystical aura of Blue Öyster Cult and the seductive contortions of King Crimson and Rush on „For None And All”, and also the malevolent and righteous bravura that Judas Priest and Scorpions made manifest throughout the ages, what Spell excel in more so is a suspension of disbelief that transforms these infectious psychodramas and tales of the supernatural into a turbulent and tempestuous psychic shockwave that raises pulse-rates as easily as it haunts the dreams.
Felvételek :
1. Madame Psychosis
2. Whipping Sigils
3. Too Late
4. The Sickness Unto Death
5. River of Sleep
6. Séance
7. The Veil
8. Dark Desires
9. Vanitas
10. The Sphinx
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