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Visions of Bone - The Wounded KingsLabel: Candlelight/SpinefarmFormat: CD download Released: 2016 Reviewed By: Jack Mangan Rating: 7.5/ 10 |
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They're called Visions of Bone, and they kinda kick ass. They just do it very slowly, and with the same blunt weapon, over and over. Other acts they evoke on their 2016 album, "The Wounded Kings", include: Black Sabbath (of course), Type O Negative, Cathedral, The Cult, Deftones. Track 1, simply entitled ‘Beast’, goes into doom jam band territory, with a meandering second half that wanders without getting lost. This is an exciting, intriguing promise to start the experience, but the rest of the album doesn't follow up on it, instead delivers straightforward, standard-issue Doom. |
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There are only five tracks on "The Wounded Kings", and they all sound pretty much the same. Don't fret; they're good songs, and four of those five are epic in length, so you're not getting short-changed on your order of plodding, muddy, low-tuned crawls. This is a full-length album, clocking in with a total running time just over 50 minutes. The sound is a bit too repetitive for me to make it through an entire play at once, but I dig this record in pieces - - albeit massive ones. The respectability bar for all five songs actually remains pretty level, so there's not necessarily a bad spot at all on the album, just an overkill of sameness. Interestingly, the two best tracks are the longest: ‘Beast’ at 14:08 and ‘Kingdom’ at 11:18 - - although the predictable, but groovy-as-hell ‘Vultures’ is right there with them. These songs are high quality, and all three will continue to get dropped into my playlist well after this review is done, any time my day requires some good sludge. Recommended.
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