zeinharis
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The Desert Call album is also awesome!!!
Awesome album! Great choice!
The Desert Call album is also awesome!!!
Awesome album! Great choice!
Here's a record that should not work. Its two main influences-- frostbitten Scandinavian black metal and rustic U.S. roots music-- should not combine, let alone gracefully.
And yet Horseback managed to intuit some kinship between them. Instead of clashing, these two distinct modes harmonize on Half Blood into something dark and sweeping, where it all could have wound up a ridiculous failed experiment. Instead we get a why-didn't-anyone-think-of-this-sooner mix of metal ugliness and heartland beauty, post-rock at its most spartan and hard rock at its most out-there.
Straight up American Doom! The spirit of Black Sabbath lives.....