Year : 2018
Style : Hard Rock
Country : Denmark
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 113 mb
Bio:
Black Swamp Water from Silkeborg is old school hard rock and heavy metal with obvious references to the “big” bands of the Golden Decades of Rock (Black Sabbath, Ozzy, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Lynyrd Skynyrd, a.o.), and this resulted in a 5 out of 6 star review in the Danish music magazine Gaffa in December 2014 for their debut EP “Hellride” which is mixed and mastered by Jacob Bredahl (Dead Rat Studio) – and has gotten airplay on radio stations around the world (in Denmark on MyRock and P6 in “Sort Søndag”, a.o.).The debut album “Chapter One” is written with the same energetic approach to rock music – but the band has matured and garnered valuable live experience in the past 2 years (at Royal Metal Fest 2016 at Voxhall/Atlas in Aarhus, a.o.), and (other than the power rock songs) this has made room for more calm, thoughtful songs and passages on the 11 track album. With this album, the band brings all of their musical inspirations to the table to make the most diverse record possible – a record which is also shock full of grindingly heavy tunes and pure kickass rock ‘n’ roll. In that respect, the goal of the recording is to take the listener on a musical journey through everything from fast and loud to mellow and acoustic – something that is a dying art in this day and age where singles, streams and downloads rule.The album is mixed and mastered by Tue Madsen (Antfarm Studio), whose characteristic drum sound is in high standing with particularly drummer Kim Langkjær Jensen. Kim started his drumming career in various death metal bands, such as Dawn of Demise and Koldborn, and he made Tue Madsen’s acquaintance while playing and recording with Danish death metal legends Illdisposed. Other than Kim, the band consists of singer Bjørn Bølling Nyholm, bass player Jeppe Birch Friis, and the two guitarists Jan Geert and Martin Lykke Hansen.
Album:
Denmark has a unique Metal scene, and it gave birth to three legendary giants: MERCYFUL FATE, KING DIAMOND and ARTILLERY. There were others, like MALTESE FALCON in the 80’s, and others that I can’t remember their names (and I’ll not search just to play dumb with you all). But it’s truly rare to hear something new from those lands. But once in a while, new names appear, as from the quintet BLACK SWAMP WATER, that is releasing their second album, “Distant Thunder”. To explain in few words: they are a Heavy Metal/Hard Rock band with its music molded by a Southern Rock feeling. Ok, my words are not enough to explain how lovely and melodic their music is, and what great melodies that fills every song, turning the album not only easy to be assimilated by our minds. Of course, the greasy feeling of Southern Rock is presented in homeopathic doses, but making their music even better. What I’m trying to say: this album is really good! It’s like AMORPHIS mixed with CORROSION OF CONFORMITY in some moments.Christian Bond Sørensen and the band took the responsibility to produce, mix and master the album’s songs. It’s clear in a way that we can understand every little musical arrangement they play and to absorb their melodies, but it’s heavy as well. To be honest, their music sounds great and fresh, being far away from those moldy qualities we hear every single day. Their musical work is really lovely, and although the entire album is very good, the heavy weight of “Bitter Harvest” with its fine guitar riffs, the nice melodies and excellent work on bass guitar and drums of “Live Your Darkness”, the fine mix of melodies and aggressiveness heard on “Rebellion” and on “The End”, and the charming melodies of the introspective “The High Road” and “Defiance” (where the vocals are showing their versatility on both) will conquer you all.So “Distant Thunder” is a very good album, indeed, and BLACK SWAMP WATER is going to be a strong name of this genre, if they know how to deal with their musical work.
Line-Up:
Bjørn Bølling Nyholm - Vocals
Jan Geert - Guitars
Martin Lykke Hansen - Guitars
Jeppe Birch Friis - Bass
Kim Langkjær Jensen - Drums
Tracklist:
01. Badlands
02. Bitter Harvest
03. Live Your Darkness
04. Rebellion
05. The End
06. The High Road
07. You Disappear
08.On My Own
09. Defiance
10. Rise
11. Down For Good
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