THE GRAVIATORS: Motherload
I
have been listening to this album for a while now, and have had a really hard
time with categorizing exactly what I am hearing. I am going to stray off topic for a moment,
and then will bring it back in. If you
only know their hits, you won’t understand the comparison but if you are a true
Blue Oyster Cult fan, you will know what I am talking about. BOC’s sound is just different. You would buy a new album and the songs
wouldn’t sound quite sound right to you, yet you’d keep playing them because
they are intriguing, and would eventually reach a point where you loved all of
them. This comes close to describing how
I feel about “Motherload”. I thought of
the BOC comparison right away because when I played the first track, “Leif’s
Last Breath-Dance of the Valkyrie”, I immediately thought of a Pepper
Keenan-era Corrosion of Conformity sound with Blue-Oyster Cult songwriting. Similar to BOC, the Graviators’ sound really
varies within an album. It runs the
gamut from fuzz to clean to heavy distortion.
Their sound has reminded me of COC, BOC, Sheavy and Sabbath all in the
same tune sometimes. Yet with all that
variation the band manages to create an overall cohesive atmosphere to the
entire album. As is the case with so
many Swedish rock bands, the guitar tones and production quality are inspirational. Included
is a re-recorded “Druid’s Ritual”, a tune which really covers a lot of ground
musically. If you will be checking out
the video for “Narrow Minded Bastards” below, the most Sabbath-sounding tune on
the album, note the super tasteful guitar solo at around 4:20 and what a great
guitar sound. Enjoy!
-Ultra
-Ultra
“Narrow Minded Bastards”
Niklas Sjöberg: Vocals
Martin Fairbanks: Guitar
Johan Holm: Bass
Henrik Bergman: Drums
Martin Fairbanks: Guitar
Johan Holm: Bass
Henrik Bergman: Drums
This Kicks Total Arse!
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