Shadows - Out For Blood (2023)

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Shadows - Out For Blood (2023)

Príspevokod užívateľa Horex » 19 Máj 2023, 08:47

Shadows - Out For Blood (2023)

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Year : 2023
Style : Heavy Metal
Country : Chile
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 74 mb


Bio:

At some point in the last ten years John Shades aka Cris Profaner reformed his late 80’s underground thrash metal crew Apostasy and began to reclaim the old glory of extreme thrash metal with a prolific number of releases, ultimately producing two full-lengths that’d realized and pressed beyond their obscure legacy. Around 2021 the Vina del Mar, Chile-based artist had essentially closed that chapter beyond live obligations, eventually sealing off the band as a studio project. As it turns out all resources would instead focus on his new and very different band Shadows, an early-to-mid 80’s style sinister heavy metal/hard rock project which aims itself at an era of heavy metal where songcraft was still very much influenced by the flash and bang of late 70’s arena-filling haul as it entered its era of greatest self-indulgence. ‘Out For Blood‘ is the adept realization of that core idea done right, a short debut album full of all-killer, ear catching pieces which do not fit neatly in the present and do not escape references to the past but bring to life an impossible to forget beast of shredding, creeping and wailing heavy metal nonetheless. It is a modest introduction which asks very little of the listener beyond a half-hour ear but no doubt if given some serious support these decades-crafted sensibilities could serve more than a certain knack and a handful of kicking creep anthems.There should be a bit of a generational divide in terms of how Shadows‘ style of anthemic yet dark heavy metal is received per any available reference. Today’s heavy rock enthusiast will probably default to hearing a bit of Ghost in ‘Out For Blood‘ but, even ‘Opus Eponymous‘ was quite a different feeling despite similar influences coming from the more harmony rich side of the late 70’s heavy rock spiritus and a melodic/riffcraft influence from 80’s Mercyful Fate. Either way the feeling should be recognizable enough and these songs are tuneful in a similar way but have their own voice; The more 80’s attuned scholar should pick up the buzz of early Ozzy Osbourne solo records and some nearby Priest influence in the speed-metallic rhythms of this debut otherwise and for the lead guitars it’d make sense to point to influences from a bit of glam rock theatre in addition. For most listeners these comparisons won’t quite work entirely, these songs don’t reflect the ‘Stained Class‘ inspired ride of records like ‘Melissa‘ and instead have a bit more of a biting and stamping nature which the band suggests are long-standing inspiration which spans from Alice Cooper‘s darkest to the denim and leather of early Mötley Crüe, at that point I suppose there is no need to further pollute the stew beyond suggesting fans of anything King Diamond related will particularly enjoy the haunted spirit, the atmosphere, the vocals and the sinister creep that this album leads with.

Album:

After the pure magic and fire of the "Into the Nightmare" precursor demo tape, we're thrilled to bring you its full-scale successor and evolution: the unrivaled debut album by Chilean heavy metal cult Shadows. Packing in 30 minutes of legendary songwriting and visionary revivalism "Out for Blood" takes us back to a time, somewhere in the early 80's, when acts like Mercyful Fate, Satan, Death SS, Judas Priest, and Alice Cooper were laying the unforgettable foundations of what would soon become a generational, industry-changing phenomenon: the defining of heavy metal as we know it. A raging and undying fire of searing leads, thundering drums, spooky operatic vocals, ripping guitars, unforgettable hooks and outrageous transgression. With no hesitation or limits to its deathless imagination, Shadows has conceived a classic metal crucible of unparalleled wizardry and dominance, using familiar concepts borrowed from dark b-movies, old comic strips, occultism and esotericism to take the listener down a dark, left-hand path of cinematic storytelling, thrilling fantasy, dark impulses and transgressive paranoia. The ten tracks of "Out for Blood" display a breadth of tricks and expertise rarely seen at such an accomplished level in contemporary NWOTHM and classic metal acts, and this should come as no surprise knowing that Shadows mastermind and main songwriter John Shades (a pseudonym of Cristian Silva of Apostasy fame), has been shaping the pillars of true and untamed underground South American heavy metal for at least three decades. Using a mist of dark, keyboard-laden atmospheres, vorticose melodies and a dominating, dual attack of criss-crossing, blazing razor-sharp solos, Shades and his co-conspirators have unfolded a half-hour of absolute, boundless imagination, covering almost fifty years of heavy metal evolution and transformation, and delving deep into the primordial fabric of the genre's most defining traits, those of technical extremism, frantic intensity, and adrenaline-pumping darkness. A full-frontal assault on the senses where the limitless imagination of epic storytelling and of rare musicianship have converged in creating the ultimate homage, heirloom and celebration to the undying, sacred and eternal flame of heavy metal.

Line Up:

John Shades - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards - See also: Apostasy
Michael Mist - Drums

Production:

All Tracks Written By John Shades
Front and Back cover Paintings By Arkadiusz Zając
Produced and Mixed By Sebastian Palominos
Mastered at LAMECH Sound Design
Recorded at Vardager Records, Quilpue CHILE, Engineered by Sebastian Palominos
Photgraphy and Make Up by Torment Films
Graphic Design by CS-GRAFICA & MA

Tracklist:

01. Nightstalker 04:22
02. The Ripper 03:21
03. Sacrifice 03:46
04. Dream Paralysis 01:14
05. Into the Nightmare 04:20
06. Forgotten Rites 03:55
07. Out for Blood 01:14
08. Maniac 03:52
09. Fullmoon 01:28
10. Alissa 04:01


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