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artist: Sheev
title: Ate's Alchemist
year: 2025
genre: Metal
type: Album
label: Ripple Music
language: English
rel. date: 2025-07-11
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:50:02
size: 114.7 MiB / 8 tracks
rip date: 2026-06-26
source url: https://open.qobuz.com/album/ql4o6ef0z8npb
tracklist:
01. The Alchemist 1:24
02. Martef 6:49
03. King Mustard II 6:09
04. Elephant Trunk 7:46
05. Henry 5:33
06. Cul De Sac 8:25
07. T├╝del├╝t 5:02
08. Sabress 8:55
release notes:
Ate's Alchemist contains 50 minutes of music, and showcases Sheev's
personable brand of progressive metal. Taking in influences from grunge
and stoner metal, Sheev fuse these into progressive metal creations that
impress.
"Our sound is inspired by progressive metal bands like Opeth, Gojira, and
Mastodon, mixed with our love for grunge and groove bands like Alice in
Chains, Down, Soundgarden, The Sword, and Crowbar." This is a decent
place to approach Ate's Alchemist from.
Sheev make good use of their different influences, forging a sound that's
quite interesting and atypical in some ways. The component parts of Ate's
Alchemist are all familiar from the styles mentioned, but Sheev take
these and smash them together like mad scientists. The different genres
and styles blend together into one, a holistic metallic mass of jagged
edges and soft colours.
The songs have plenty of stoner-inflected grooves and seductive,
insidious melodies, but also have technical edges that are sharper than
expected. Sheev's intricate songwriting brings together different time
signatures, progressive structuring, wandering bass, and psychedelic
workouts, all wrapped around a core of more traditional songcraft, making
for music that strives to take strengths from both. Unexpectedly, it
works. Ate's Alchemist manages to combine the immediate and familiar,
with slower burning depth, allowing it to travel down paths less
frequented.
Sheev's music is a curious mix of old and new, with the band succeeding
in breathing fresh life into styles that certainly need it. Sheev have
the ideas, but they also have the execution and delivery. Ate's Alchemist
offers discerning listeners the chance to explore complex and
multifaceted soundscapes that are worth spending the time to get to know.