Totally psyched. Graveyard absolutely blew my doors off at Sweden Rock. I know Christina is going (stardust2112). Anyone else?
Zod
Zod
Anyone else going to Witchcraft/Graveyard in NYC tonight?
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Palabra de Dios
Heavy Metal Weatherman
I always seem to fail miserably at describing their sound, so I'm going to let someone else do it. Here's a review from "Nightwatcher's House of Rock":
Recalling the best of the heavy blues influenced bands from the early 70's, the self titled debut from Gothenburg, Sweden's Graveyard pulls one back through the years to a time when heavy rock ruled the planet and the charts. Featuring a production that is time appropriate, if you didn't know better you'd be excused in thinking this was some long lost early metal classic. Filled with doom and gloom riffs worthy of early Black Sabbath merged with vocals and background vocals gleaned from British bands such as Savoy Brown and Wishbone Ash, if you love this style of music this one's definitely for you. Everything about this one is suitably retro, and it almost sounds like a lost radio transmission from a long ago time colliding with 2008.
Very atmospheric, but still extremely song-oriented, this is a band who obviously have studied not only the big names but the obscure also. Shades of Aussie legends Buffalo pop up here, doom merchants Pentagram there, underpinnings of prog rock mix with psychedelic bombast, culminating in a heady brew of stoner rock goodness.
In a simple sentence : If you love all that was heavy in the early 70's you owe it to yourself to check out this talented band of young Swedes, who have released one of the finest albums of this year, even if this year happened to be 1970.
Here's their MySpace page if you want to give them a listen:
http://www.myspace.com/graveyardsongs
If you're at all intrigued by those songs, then you'll love their live set. I find that very few bands are better live than they are on disc. Graveyard is better live... by a wide margin.
Zod
Recalling the best of the heavy blues influenced bands from the early 70's, the self titled debut from Gothenburg, Sweden's Graveyard pulls one back through the years to a time when heavy rock ruled the planet and the charts. Featuring a production that is time appropriate, if you didn't know better you'd be excused in thinking this was some long lost early metal classic. Filled with doom and gloom riffs worthy of early Black Sabbath merged with vocals and background vocals gleaned from British bands such as Savoy Brown and Wishbone Ash, if you love this style of music this one's definitely for you. Everything about this one is suitably retro, and it almost sounds like a lost radio transmission from a long ago time colliding with 2008.
Very atmospheric, but still extremely song-oriented, this is a band who obviously have studied not only the big names but the obscure also. Shades of Aussie legends Buffalo pop up here, doom merchants Pentagram there, underpinnings of prog rock mix with psychedelic bombast, culminating in a heady brew of stoner rock goodness.
In a simple sentence : If you love all that was heavy in the early 70's you owe it to yourself to check out this talented band of young Swedes, who have released one of the finest albums of this year, even if this year happened to be 1970.
Here's their MySpace page if you want to give them a listen:
http://www.myspace.com/graveyardsongs
If you're at all intrigued by those songs, then you'll love their live set. I find that very few bands are better live than they are on disc. Graveyard is better live... by a wide margin.
Zod
DemonOfTheWoods
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Palabra de Dios
Heavy Metal Weatherman
Well, given the review I was expecting an old school sound, but probably not even that old school. I didn't think there were bands that still made music like that any more (well, not new bands anyway). They're cool enough...good description, certainly not heavy enough to be "metal" but still Sabbathy enough to pique my interest. They're even playing a show in Birmingham...still quite a drive from me, but cool to see a band playing more than one venue in the South for once....
AMBR
Metal Grandma
Wish I could have gone, but only so many shows I can go to a month. Damn this economy, cutting into my concert schedule!
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