Building on two of the more obvious and surefire components of
\nhard rock, Norwegian hard rockers Mohammed rehash the plummeting
\nchord strums of Black Sabbath and Kiss and fuse them with early
\n1980s thrash scene riffing (think Metallica) to come up with their
\nown bastard offspring from those bands’ glory years —
\nBlackbomber<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Making no bones about snagging the ten-second signature riff
\nfound on Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid,” the lead song on
\nBlackbomber<\/i>, “1973,” aptly sets the tone for everything else
\nfound on their debut with the vocal proclamation that they are
\n“dancing with the demons tonight.” Vocally,
\nBlackbomber<\/i> is essentially all aggro, with enough guitar
\nhooks and drum fills to differentiate itself from any comparisons
\nto the death metal scene commonly spawned and thus associated with
\nthe Scandic reaches.<\/p>\n
Opening with a guitar wah-wah that makes me think of the Kiss
\ndisco years (i.e. “I Was Made for Loving You”), the track “Obey The
\nLaw” settles into a funk concoction that is pure Hendrix, Iommi and
\nHammett — resulting in a vintage sound combining all those
\nguitarists’ signature multiple time stamps. The formula itself is
\nsmooth enough to confirm the combined talent of the members in this
\nband; never mind the fact that I can’t find a mention of these
\nguys’ names on the CD jacket or any website. A band overlooking
\nsuch facts on an album release, no less a debut, is maddening if
\nnot downright dubious.<\/p>\n
So, whomever the vocalist is refuses to be outdone by his axe
\ncompadres as he voice-synths an approach to the intro of “Silver
\nLining,” yielding a
\nGodfather<\/i>-like narration which abruptly succumbs to a
\ntumultuous battery of chord riffing and thrash breaks. The result
\nof this approach reveals possibly what I am making out to be one of
\nmy favorite angst lines in recent memory with the screech, “I’m
\nattached to yooouuuuu \/ Like a glacier to the sun!” Great narration
\nto this track mixed to a series of varying time signatures makes
\n“Silver Lining” the intriguing listening opportunity on
\nBlackbomber<\/i> — hands down.<\/p>\n
Of course this award holds until one hears the track “(Sweet)
\nSixteen” as the vocal fury is caressed with backing “sweet,
\nsweet’s” found throughout the choruses. No ballad here — just pure
\nfinesse to what would otherwise be a song surely confused with
\nplenty of other simplified hard-rocking song structures.<\/p>\n
\nBlackbomber<\/i> strikes that figurative chord resonating with me
\nright out of the gates and doesn’t let go in revealing very few if
\nany dead spots. Forget the fact that these moose rockers have
\neffectively vaulted themselves to the top of the Norwegian rock
\nthrone with Gluecifer’s recent disbanding and current maps finding
\nTurbonegro lost in their ways. I decidedly find it only appropriate
\nthat the rest of the world be wary in heeding the call of who else
\nlurks in the musical shadows — not only above the Arctic Circle
\nbut below it as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":27249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7225],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-38603","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-mohammed","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38603","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=38603"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=38603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}