Dead Quiet - Grand Rites

Monday, time to introduce "Record of the Week"

"Grand Rites" is the second album release from the Heavy Metal/Stoner Rock band DEAD QUIET.

DEAD QUIET hails from Vancouver, BC and was formed in 2013 from the ashes of the guitarist and vocalist Kevin Keegan’s former band, BARN BURNER, and the rest of the band members ain't any rookies, on bass we have Aaron “Boon” Gustafson (ANCIIENTS, ex-3 INCHES OF BLOOD (live), ex-SPREADEAGLE), on guitars Brock MacInnes (ANCIIENTS, TOBEATIC, ex-VENOMOUS TUSK, PERCHERON, ROTTING HILLS, THE BLOOD RIVER BAND, ex-HAMMER OF HADES), on keyboards Justin Hagberg (WORSE, BLACK WIZARD (live), ALLFATHER, ex-3 INCHES OF BLOOD, KLANDESTIN, RITUAL DICTATES, ex-ROADRUNNER UNITED, ex-THE VILLAIN AVIAN SYMPHONY) and on drums Jason Dana (ex-KAREN FOSTER, ex-SPREADEAGLE).

DEAD QUIETs follow up album "Grand Rites" is a mixture of 70s hard rock and melodic doom metal. An album where they seek to meld melody with catastrophe as they weave through a dissonant landscape of crushing metallic riffs and somber choral musings.

The album opens up with "Moon Curser" a classic layout with a big and catchy chorus, heavy riffing with powerful keyboards and an intensity vocalist that takes a step forward and releases his pain and anguish as a rough-haired alpha male. It follows up by "Blood Lovers", that opens up with a melodic guitar string until the stomping rhythm section jumps along, a great and really fun tune. "Corpse Revival" is a more thrashier piece, heavy, screamy, sludge and very enjoyable. "Disgraced" & "Fucking Oath" turn the mood down a notch with a half-paced melody, cleaner vocal, slightly easier playing. "Spiritual Abuse" follows the same path but with a more harsher vocal. "Dear Demon" opens up with acoustic guitars, whiskey-soaked vocal, the tune builds up slowly, heavy bass licks, thundering riffing and more angry vocals and a catchy chorus, see the video below. "Old Hopeless" is a real rocker with great and bombastic melody. The album closes up with the title track "Grand Rites", a tune that blends the whole album into one tune, soft melody, neatly guitar playing, clean vocals to harsh and heavy riffing, screaming and anarchy drumming.

DEAD QUIETs new album "Grand Rites" is a very impressive genre-spanning journey.

My beautiful blue vinyl version of the album.

Today's tune "Dear Demon" taken from "Grand Rites", enoy!



Upcoming shows:

Sep 28 Le Trabendo Paris, France
Sep 29 Krakatoa Mérignac, France
Oct 03 Ninkasi Gerland Lyon, France
Oct 12 TRIX Centrum voor Muziek Borgerhout, Belgium
Jan 23 Le Trabendo Paris, France
Jan 23 Le Trabendo Paris, France
Jan 24 Krakatoa Mérignac, France
Jan 28 Ninkasi Gerland Lyon, France
Feb 09 Loppen Copenhagen, Denmark
Feb 14 Debaser Strand Stockholm, Sweden
Feb 15 Sticky Fingers Gothenburg, Sweden
Feb 23 O2 Academy Islington London, UK

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Anciients - Following The Voice

"Somewhere between sheer, apocalyptic heaviness and precise riffing, lays otherworldly ANCIIENTS—a Vancouver-based rock juggernaut forging crushing heavy metal evocative of veterans HIGH ON FIRE and contemporary sonic craftsmen, OPETH. ANCIIENTS have combined fuck-off-huge chords with mind-altering riffage that takes you on an unfamiliar trip.

"Voice Of The Void" reaches position 6 on Tune Of The Day's Top 100 list of the best albums 2016.

Intoxicating mix of darker sludge and heavier progressive black metal gloom that will blow you away.

Today's tune "Following The Voice", taken from "Voice of the Void"



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Anciients - Raise the Sun

Yesterday it was time again for the annual hard rock evening that is always on eve of Twelfth Night. With great excitement got to play my own choices and to hear what the other participants have made up for this, perhaps best of all, discovering some new or old music that you did not know of and yes I found many during this evening that i need to look up/buy. In the biggest secret I have pieced together the tracks for this evening, some new discoveries that showed up at the last minute and one which I brooding on for a whole year :) Some tracks were obvious through the presentation of the 2013's best albums that went on during Christmas and New Year. Crazy, yes really crazy.

This year's starting field! Yes the colourful record is mine :)

One of the beers at the evening!

So over the next few days I'll present my choices in the order of recording i had with me, some tracks I already have played here before, but that does not matter, good things should be repeated!

Here they come. Track no. 1 (track no.2 tomorrow and so on...)

My first choice from yesterday's Hard Rock Night, was the Vancouver-based rock juggernaut Anciients with the tune "Raise The Sun". Is no better way to start an evening of 2013's best album and debut. With their apocalyptic heaviness and precise riffage that takes you on an unfamiliar trip.

Todays tune "Raise the Sun" live at au Club Soda à Montréal 23.04.13



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Anciients - Heart Of Oak

Number 1 on Tune Of The Days best album list of year 2013 is the Vancouver-based rock juggernaut "Anciients" with thier debut album "Heart Of Oak"

 

The band concits of: 

Kenny - Lead Guitar & Vocals

Chris - Guitar & Vocals

Booner - Bass & Vocals

Hannay - Drums

What a debut, what a refreshing slice of progressive music. A record that should be enjoyed in its entirety, for it is a journey through a deep progressive landscape, a large and rich dynamic maze, chances are that you will be stuck there forever.

Somewhere between sheer, apocalyptic heaviness and precise riffing, lays otherworldly Anciients, a forging crushing heavy metal evocative of veterans High on Fire and contemporary sonic craftsmen, Opeth, with Mastodon and Baroness finesse. The band have combined fuck-off-huge chords with mind-altering riffage that takes you on an unfamiliar trip.

Todays tune "Raise The Sun" gives you a taste on what's waiting for you!



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Mastodon - Iron Tusk

Imagine that you are stranded on a deserted island.
On it, there is this lounge with a great stereo, a comfortable couch, all placed in the shade.
With trembling hands you try the stereo, and as in a miracle - it actually works!
The only catch is - all you can find is a box with three records in it.
You have no way of getting more, and these three records will be you company until you die of starvation in a few weeks time. As a grant from higher/lower powers, you get to choose the three records.
Wich.
Records.
Do.
You.
Choose?

That eternal "desert island"-question is part of todays ramblings.
The other part is the fact that I would answer that question completely different depending on the time in my life - simply because I have a knack for falling completely and totally in love with new great records. Often, a bit more so than what is probably healthy.
This, I belive, is something I share with others - and I think that both Stones (perhaps especially him, maybe that is why his pile of records that he has bought and just do not seem to get around to just keeps growing?) and Thetania has a bit of that personality as well.
In the first Rebel Angel Rambling, I revealed that my top 5 favourite albums of all time are:
BLACK SABBATH "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
DIO "The Last In Line"
QUEENSRYCHE "Operation: Mindcrime"
PARADISE LOST "Draconian Times"
OPETH "Ghost Reveries"
...and they dominate my "Most Played" on iTunes - but, nevertheless, I would probably just grab one of them if I got the question from the beginning of this post.
Instead, I would add some of my own favourites at the moment.
This year, 2013, is turning out to be a solid music year.
I fell completely and a bit surprisingly in love with SOILWORK "The Living Infinite" earlier this year (did not think they would be able to pull it off, making a double album that has no dead moments at all), as well as a bit less surprisingly with the third and excellent KONGH-album "Sole Creation".
The third album that obsessed me - and the one that is currently taking all the airtime from me - is this one:

Vancouverbased ANCIIENTS plays music that rings familiar if you like acts like BARONESS, MASTODON, OPETH and KYLESA - but it is very much an album that stands on it's own and cannot be called a copy. It has that special magic touch that makes you want to listen again and again...and again. In fact, I've missed a few deadlines when it comes to reviews of other albums just beacause I could not face listening to anything else than "Heart Of Oak" from ANCIIENTS....but don't tell anyone.
After all, as Homer Simpson said: "Remember son, it's only cheating if you get caught", and as those deadlines were not written in blood I think it is fine. Some records just had to wait a week or two to get their albumreview published.

Looking back over the years, it is quite easy to pinpoint a specific album to a specific point of time in my life, especially when something important or memorable happened.
On the Metalblog, the spring has had a specific series of article that takes a deeper look into that (you'll find it here, it's called "Besatt" (meaning "Possessed") and it is all in Swedish), and as I am currently writing the fall season of that series - a new post will be published every other Sunday - I cannot help wondering if I will ascosiate ANCIIENTS with this late summer, and perhaps the Rebel Angel Ramblings.
Quite possible.
Especially as I am at a happy place in my life right now.
Everything...flows.
That makes it especially weird, as I once discovered MASTODON "Leviathan", an album that reminds me very much of ANCIIENTS "Heart Of Oak", at a very dark time in my life.

The record was released more or less at the same time as I went through a quite dirty divorce, and as it turned out it became a big comfort and energy booster when I needed it the most.
The heavy and catchy riffing, the energy and drive in the music and the out-of-this-world-drumming will forever fill me with thoughts and feelings of hope,slightly tainted with a small bit of sorrow and dark memories.
As I could not find any good video from ANCIIENTS, I thought that it would be fitting to play MASTODON, once a definite record that would have been one of the three in my box.



The band is Troy Sanders (bass and vocals), Brett Hinds (guitar and vocals), Bill Keliher (guitar) and Brann Dailor (drums), and I'd like to say that this record was their big brake and transformed them from a promising band to superstars. They went on to create concept albums like "Blood Mountain", "Crack The Skye" with windling stories built into them, as well as the latest and more straight forward "The Hunter".
It has become one of my most-played bands, it it will be interesting to see if ANCIIENTS can walk that very same road.

So - my three records right now, on that deserted island:
ANCIIENTS "Heart Of Oak"
BLACK SABBATH "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
SOILWORK "The Living Infinite".

Tomorrow, it may very well be something completely different.
Wich ones are your three albums for the island?

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