If you like your metal with thick fuzzy guitars played at a
\nmid-tempo slush, Spiritu is a band you may be interested in.
\nBassist John, guitarist Chav, percussionist James, and vocalist
\nJadd have created a short 41 minute opus. Three tracks are in the
\nnine-minute range, including the opener “Z (Noonday Demon)” which
\nclocks in at 9:01. James wails on his toms and creates a sea of
\ncymbals under which Chav and John riff heavy.<\/p>\n
Of the six songs here, “Fat Man in Thailand” is as commercial as
\nthe band gets. The song clocks in at 5:49 and, while it hasn’t
\nreplaced my (current) favorite gem “She Hates Me” from Puddle of
\nMudd, the song is memorable. “Clean Livin'” and “Woman Tamer” are
\ntwo shorter songs that ramp up to the disc closer “Slump.” “Slump”
\nmakes me think of a jam band, okay, I’ll say the P word – Phish –
\nwho just play and construct and create tapestries of music that
\ntheir emotions get painted upon.<\/p>\n
“Glorywhore” is the third track, and I mention this song last,
\nnot because it is another long opus (which it is) with lots of
\nBlack Sabbath influenced riffing (which it has). “Glorywhore” is
\nwhat turned the corner for me as a listener and music fan. The song
\nstarts with a slow simple riff and drum beat. Jadd comes in with
\ncutting lyrics “If you’re so smart then gimme some credit for
\nfiguring out a way to do what you never could.” For it was as he
\nsings those words that it happened to me: I realized that Jadd is
\nno Ozzy and that he has his own story to tell. At that moment is
\nwhen Spiritu becomes that much more appealing. I’ll go out on a
\nlimb and call this one of the best of 2002, ranking right up there
\nwith Engine’s
\nSuperholic<\/i>, the self-titled release from Brand New Sin, and
\nthe outstandingly heavy
\nIn The Face Of The Enemy<\/i> from Disarray. This band has many
\npeer bands on the same label, like Abdullah, Atomic Bitchwax, and
\nThe Mushroom River Band, and all of these bands play a similar
\nbreed of heavy rock.<\/p>\n
But there’s something special about Spiritu. I think this band
\ncould go far in the underground heavy music scene. This release is
\na solid step forward in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6781],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-37464","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-spiritu","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37464"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37464"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}