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/:: Artist :: Necromancing the Stone ::\
:: Album :: Jewel of the Vile ::
:: Year :: 2016 ::
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:: . Genre :: Heavy Metal Source :: CDDA . ::
:: Label :: Metal Blade Records R.date :: 2017.03.07 ::
_::__ Cat.nr. :: N/A Size :: 108,06 MB __::_
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Website :: http://necromancingthestone.bandcamp.com/
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:: 01. Crusher 05:52 ::
:: 02. Bleed for the Night 04:21 ::
:: 03. The Descent 03:53 ::
:: 04. The Siren's Call 05:29 ::
:: 05. Ritualistic Demise 04:18 ::
:: 06. The Old One 04:20 ::
:: 07. Rotted Reunion 04:36 ::
:: 08. Unfinished Business 04:54 ::
:: 09. Honor Thy Prophet 06:54 ::
:: 10. From Graves to Infamy 05:29 ::
:: 11. The Battle of Morningstar 03:53 ::
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:: ::
:: Necromancing The Stone is a great example of a band whose ::
:: appeal is easier to show than tell. The group features ::
:: members of Arsis, The Absence, The Black Dahlia Murder, and ::
:: Brimstone Coven, so you know talent isn't an issue. The ::
:: problem is that bands playing retro metal often fall into ::
:: troublesome categories. Either they tune their guitars too ::
:: low, smoke a bowl, and halfway through a tune forget how to ::
:: write a song, or they just stay too close to what's familiar ::
:: to make a mark. While Necromancing The Stone are way ::
:: different from your standard throwback metal, their time ::
:: playing in their main/previous bands informs how they ::
:: resurrect what made early metal so much damn fun. ::
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:: Also, it's just so much easier to just hit play on just ::
:: about any track on this excellent album to get a better ::
:: picture. 'The Siren's Call' and 'The Old Ones' are some of ::
:: the best metal tunes you're likely to hear this year ::
:: regardless of genre, and highlight what the band does so ::
:: well. Musically, this feels like Maiden and Priest filtered ::
:: through a modern lens. Occasionally, you'll get hints of ::
:: thrash or melodeath riffs ('Unfinished Business'), and harsh ::
:: vocals do rarely creep in. The music is often fast enough to ::
:: that some might notice nods to power metal. However, what ::
:: Necromancing The Stone does is write metal for metalheads ::
:: who have loved metal all their lives, or ones who can ::
:: honestly remember their first time (with a metal record). ::
:: These songs are bigger than your mom (who I'm sure is a ::
:: saint, no matter her size), with twin-guitar leads and solos ::
:: leading the way around wonderfully boisterous vocals ::
:: courtesy of 'Big' John Williams. Their appeal is similar to ::
:: what makes Charred Walls Of The Damned so fun, but ::
:: Necromancing The Stone is bigger, better, and feels even ::
:: older. ::
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:: That sense of age permeates everything about this record, ::
:: which really does feel like a love letter to metal ::
:: throughout the decades. The lyrical content revolving around ::
:: evil does nothing but add another layer of nostalgia of the ::
:: great ones. Jewel of the Vile really is a gem, and it's ::
:: likely that this will go down as the best metal album of the ::
:: year. The care and love that went into the project is ::
:: evident from the first riff, and it's impossible not to ::
:: smile along to this ode to metal. ::
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