Monday, June 17, 2013

Stone Magnum/From Time To Eternity/R.I.P Records/2013 CD Review


  Stone  Magnum  are  a  band  from  Indiana  that h as  been  featured  before  in  this  zine  with  a  musical style  I  would  describe  as  being  traditional,  old  school  doom  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  2013  album  "From  Time  To  Eternity"  which  was  released  by  R.I.P  Records.

  Drums  range  from  slow  to  mid  paced  playing  with  no  fast  drumming  or  blast  beats  being  present  on  this  recording,  while  the  bass  playing  has  a  very  strong  and  powerful  sound  with  heavy  riffing  that  dominates  throughout  the  recording.

  Rhythm  guitars  range  from  slow  to  mid  paced  old  school,  traditional  doom  metal  riffs  that  utilize  a  great  amount  of  dark  sounding  melodies  being  thrown  in  the  riffing  as  well  as  a  brief  use  of  soft  and  clean  playing,  while  the  lead  guitars  are  very  dark  and  melodic  sounding  traditional  doom  metal  guitar  solos  and  leads,  as  for  the  acoustic  guitars  they  are  only  used  on  the  last  song  and  they  use  finger  picking  and  full  chords  to  bring  a  classic  80's  metal  feeling  to  the  album.

  Vocals  are  mostly  clean  singing  traditional  doom  metal  vocals vocals  with  some  more  aggressive  elements  being  used  at  times  as  will  as  a  brief  use  of  whispers  and  spoken  word  parts,  while  the  lyrics  cover  evil  and  personal  struggles,  as  for  the  production  it  has  a  very  strong,  powerful,  heavy,  dark  and  professional  sound  where  you  can  hear  all  of  the  musical  instruments  that  are  present  on  this  recording  with  the  songs  being  long  and  epic  in  length.

  In  my  opinion  this  is  another  great  sounding  recording  from  Oliver  Magnum  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  this  band,  you  should  check  out  this  album.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "From  Time  To  Eternity"  "By  An  Omen  I  Went"  and  "In  The  Garden  Of  Beasts".  RECOMMENDED  BUY.

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