LUCIFER'S FALL - Lucifer's Fall

June 24, 2015, 8 years ago

(Hammerheart)

Greg Pratt

Rating: 8.0

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LUCIFER'S FALL - Lucifer's Fall

Not a half-bad move here from Hammerheart, reissuing this debut from Australian doomers Lucifer's Fall, who originally put this out themselves last year. It's only a couple minutes into opener "The Suffering Wizard" (great title) that the band's love for first-album (and first album only) Cathedral shines through, and, really, this is perhaps the most I've ever heard a band sound like that disc. But even in that very same song, the band picks up the pace and heads towards some trad metal/slow NWOBHM turf, and, man, is it ever glorious.

The production is just loose and ragged enough to give this a very genuine feel, the band coming across like, yeah, they just love that first Cathedral (who doesn't?) but they also love anything Wino has touched over the years, end sound being a very enjoyable one, not one I could ever identify in a blind listening test, but one I would certainly want to listen to again, songs like "A Sinner's Fate" having a shocking grasp of dynamics and emotional weight, considering this is a debut. And although I never want them to lose the doom, the more rockin' NWOBHM moments are the ones that stay with you after a few listens, the mixture of the two sounds definitely a great idea.



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