Holy Grail - Ride The Void (2013)

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Holy Grail - Ride The Void (2013)

Príspevokod užívateľa Horex » 23 Nov 2021, 09:41

Holy Grail - Ride The Void (2013)

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Year : 2013
Style : Traditional Heavy Metal
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 177 mb


Bio:

Like many of the legendary bands whose influences they wear on their tattered sleeves, the Los Angeles quintet HOLY GRAIL made an immediate impact when they exploded onto the metal scene in 2009. Here were five immortal men who fought to kill, armed with an infectious sound – a mix of classic heavy metal and modern sensibilities – sure to win over even the most jaded of cynics. As if on cue, metal media around the world swooned immediately. Metal Hammer UK nominated HOLY GRAIL for their “best new band” Golden Gods Award based solely on the two original tracks that appeared on their debut EP “Improper Burial”, while the group was invited to perform at major worldwide events such as the Wacken:Open:Air (Germany) and Download Festival (UK) before their full-length debut was even finished being recorded. When their full-length debut “Crisis In Utopia” was finally released in late 2010, it was clear from the opening notes on that HOLY GRAIL’s music is their silver bullet. The album reasserted the group’s potential and earned the band a new round of critical acclaim, with Revolver Magazine naming the release one of 2010′s Top 20 albums. Hereafter, the group hit the road for a nearly two-year touring cycle during which guitarist Alex Lee (ex-BONDED BY BLOOD) joined the fold and the band performed alongside the likes of BLIND GUARDIAN, ELUVEITIE and DRAGONFORCE, among others. In addition, they further developed a burgeoning international fan base by touring Japan, Australia and the UK.If “Crisis In Utopia” hinted at what HOLY GRAIL could achieve, new album “Ride The Void” shouts it through a megaphone. Gone are sword-and-steel odes to Valhalla; in their place are morbid tales of serial killers. Indeed, producer Matt Hyde (SLAYER, CHILDREN OF BODOM) brought out a darker, hungrier side of the band than many have heard to date – yet musically, they’re more exhilarating than ever: Witness the galloping riff of “Dark Passenger”, the betcha-can’t-play-this exuberance of the opening lick of “Too Decayed To Wait” or the unexpected triumphant and melodic solo in “The Great Artifice”. Perhaps more importantly, the album sees HOLY GRAIL continue to expand the limits of their sound by incorporating classical guitar (“Wake Me When It’s Over”), a cinematic, QUEEN-like vocal intro (the otherwise anthemic “Sleep of Virtue”), a trance-like guitar loop (“Silence The Scream”) that cleverly belies the lyrical content it introduces, and a moody finale (“Rains of Sorrow”) inspired by a family member’s battle with cancer. Someone pretty might catch your attention, but only someone special can keep it. HOLY GRAIL could have easily written an album filled with lovable tales of mead-chugging knights-on-horseback, but instead, they pushed themselves further – and in the end, created an unforgettable collection of timeless metal anthems that not only validates the early praise they received, but creates an exciting question: Where will they go from here? For now, though, buckle up and enjoy the ride!

Album:

Three years have passed since HOLY GRAIL released its first album, "Crisis in Utopia", but what does the passing of time matter to a band whose musical template itself dates from another time and place entirely.That time being the early 1980s, pre-thrash and pre-glam; the place continental Europe and the U.K.: when and where heavy metal's flame was crucially reignited by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, following a brief existential funk caused by punk, then unleashed to achieve widespread dominance over the ensuing decade.For HOLY GRAIL and, for that matter, any other young band working in the third millennium, dominance is of course purely a pipe dream, survival almost a luxury, and any measure of success to be taken gratefully, given the information overload, weak loyalties and hummingbird attention spans of modern music consumers.But, having said all that, one has to give the California group's sophomore album, "Ride the Void", as good a shot as any to successfully slice through the surrounding white-noise and apathy.Building strongly on the promise of that aforementioned debut, "Ride the Void" sees HOLY GRAIL finessing and expanding their vintage metal ingredients to achieve an even more impressive confluence of dazzling musicianship and catchy, anthemic songwriting - all of it best served "blistering" via powerful efforts like "Bestia Triumphans", "Bleeding Stone" and the excellent title track.With their big choruses and even bigger guitar shredding, these highlights and other notables such as "Dark Passenger", "Sleep of Virtue" and even the majestic instrumental intro piece "Archeus", confirm HOLY GRAIL's confidence in their chosen ingredients, and their abilities to mine it for mainstream metal gold - albeit not without a few glaring missteps along the way.In broad terms, we're referring to a clutch of creatively redundant filler tunes that could have perhaps best been saved for use as B-sides ("Crosswinds", "Take it to the Grave", the half-baked ballad "Rains of Sorrow"); specifically, we're looking at the album's lone indefensible ear-sore, "The Great Artifice", which, precisely as its title suggests, is a misguided sidestep into the sort of unclean vocal-enhanced quasi-metalcore best left for TRIVIUM - capped off by a regretful dip into the DRAGONFORCE corn-metal Jacuzzi.Elsewhere, incidentally, infrequent dirty vocals are incorporated far more strategically to the benefit of many of the same songs praised above, so it's not like HOLY GRAIL don't know better - they simply ain't perfect.And yet, even with these occasional errors of judgment, HOLY GRAIL have delivered a consistently seductive sophomore shot in "Ride the Void"; one that tight-ropes the retro-metal agenda as close to the abyss of mainstream mediocrity as can be expected, without plunging to a messy "splat" way down below.

Line Up:

Blake Mount Bass
Tyler Meahl Drums - See also: ex-White Wizzard
Eli Santana Guitars
James-Paul Luna Vocals - See also: ex-White Wizzard, ex-Jet Fuel
Alex Lee Guitars (2011-present) - See also: Alex Lee, ex-Bonded by Blood

Tracklist:

01. Archeus 02:15 instrumental
02. Bestia triumphans 05:48
03. Dark Passenger 04:11 Show lyrics
04. Bleeding Stone 04:20
05. Ride the Void 04:30 Show lyrics
06. Too Decayed to Wait 04:12
07. Crosswinds 04:07
08. Take It to the Grave 03:49
09. Sleep of Virtue 04:49
10. Silence the Scream 05:29
11. The Great Artifice 03:49
12. Wake Me When It's Over 01:15 instrumental
13. Rains of Sorrow 04:32
14. Can't Hide the Wolf 4:01 (Bonus Track)

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