ARKHAMIN KIRJASTO - VINYL TORCHES ABLAZE [VINYL]

Popis - TORCHES ABLAZE [VINYL]:
The debut full length album from CIRCLE's bassman Jussi
Lehtisalo's metal band Arkhamin Kirjasto. "Here's something
interesting and definitely different for a change. This is a
diverse-sounding record, that combines old-school death metal à
la AUTOPSY, NIHILIST and FURBOWL with some IRON MAIDEN-esque
melodies, grooviness of the likes of ANGEL WITCH and early
BLACK SABBATH. Added for good measure are small doses of
psychedelia and progressiveness (à la VOIVOD). So one could say
there's a kinda mixed musical package here, which, however,
seems to work pretty darn amazingly well. It's definitely a breath of fresh air, pretty much reminding of those times when
XYSMA recorded their second album, 'First & Magical', and when
the Swedish FURBOWL entered the studio to record 'The Autumn
Years' in autumn 1993. A mixed soup like this does surprise its
listeners every time when it's meant to come right behind the
nearest corner towards you - and that's always something that
overall is so great about music, when that surprise factor is
involved with it. The guys' groovily rockin' mish-mash of death
metal, heavy rock, NWOBHM, and weed-reeking psychedelia, ain't
something that can be completely ignored. No, this stuff is meant to haunt and catch you eventually, like it or not".
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