6/19/2023 0 Comments Wells fargo checkbook designs![]() ![]() Taking lyrical and artistic inspiration from 19th Century poet and painter William Blake and featuring crushing anthems like King In Crimson and The Tower, it remains the heaviest thing Bruce has ever been involved with. With fellow Iron Maiden alumnus Adrian Smith by his side and a batch of songs that were as brutal as they were unashamedly epic, Bruce’s fifth solo album combined old school musicality with new school sonic oomph. A window into the psyche of one of metal’s most interesting figures. Taking inspiration from Broadway musicals – in particular Phantom Of The Opera on Christeen – it was by turns bombastic, arresting, danceable, silly and awe-inspiring. Musically it strips away much of the ethereal ambiance of Dusk… in favour of a more direct approach, with Dani’s Eric Cartman grunt entering the mix for the first time and tunes like Beneath The Howling Stars proving that Cradle could thrash with the nasties.Ĭoming off the back of the personal Ocean Machine and Strapping Young Lad’s crushing City, Devin Townsend's Infinity was a hybrid of both styles, with an adding helping of surreal mania. A concept album based on Hungarian blood countess Elizabeth Báthory, the Filth’s third LP wrapped Dani’s sadistic storytelling into a fully blown narrative with the legendary Ingrid Pitt voicing Báthory and the epic scope of Bathory Aria tucked into this hour-long bloodbath, it was never going to be anything less than extraordinary. With a production job from Today Is The Day’s Steve Austin and featuring High On Fire man Matt Pike on backing vocals, songs like Conduit begin to really capture the band that Converge were about to become.Ĭoming up with ideas to follow Dusk… must have been a right old arse-ache, but Cradle Of Filth delivered with Cruelty And The Beast. But their second album is still a dizzy, whirlwind of a record. ![]() Three years after the release of When Forever Comes Crashing Converge would rip up the rule book completely, but here they were still just toying with it. And then it continues to be awesome until the dying strains of low-slung jam The Dragonfly. It begins with the deeply funky title track, the turbocharged stoner rock of Ship Of Gold and the cracked-mirror blues of Eight Times Over Miss October. Nonetheless, the third Clutch album rules hard for the entirety of its 51 minutes. Showcasing another side to the band, while still delivering another glut of ingenious mutant blues riffs, it probably should have made them international megastars. It still doesn’t get much more sumptuous (or bonkers) than this.įrom its quirky, iconic artwork to the cartoonish squall of its production, The Elephant Riders was the perfect follow-up to the trippy and rambling Clutch. Following up 1995’s widely acclaimed Imaginations From The Other Side was never going to be easy, but BG frontman Hansi Kürsch was plainly on a roll at this point, and from the explosive pomp of Into The Storm, to the epic crescendos of A Dark Passage, Nightfall was easily identifiable as another stone cold classic. ![]()
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