Dead Harrison - None for All Review

Hmm, an album with lots of shifts of tempo and cadence and spirit. I like that. It’s always great to hear a band that goes from Doom Metal to Hard Rock with some nuances of pop in a blink of an eye. The band has to have a great deal of balance not to spoil the mix because a little more dash of one ingredient may turn the outcome into something not so good. Well, Dead Harrison got this task for themselves and wrote an album, “None for All,” that does it almost perfectly. I said almost because there are tracks that are really unbearable. Not so many for our’s and the band’s sake. On the other hand, there are moments of pure pleasure. Yeah, the life of a Metal band isn’t that easy.

All right, “None for All” is that album which will surprise the fan by the many plot twists it delivers. It commences with the doomy driven “Monolith Lord” after an intro that I’m still trying to understand what it is doing here in the album. I say that because tittle track “None For All,” which is in fact an intro couldn’t convince me what’s the use of having it here. But “Monolith Lord” did a great job though. The track goes into a Doom Metal path, but doesn’t sound too doomy. There is something out it seems. It’s only when the fan hears the followings tracks that this out will make sense. By this out I mean the mixes Dead Harrison do. It’s “Hurricane Hell” with its Bolero driven guitar rhythm that will tell. To some extent, it’s like if The Doors got heavier with a Metal scent. So unexpected. Abusing of the unexpected mix here comes “Terror Grinder” with some kind of country rock influence. The Doom Metal driven “Shadow Prism” showcases some more mixes that bring it near the golden era of the great instrumentals some band from the “…And Justice for all” era used to deliver the fans. By the way, one of the best of the album. “Shadow Prism” is followed by “Doom Train,” whose inspiration maybe lies on Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” era spiced by the despair of a Black Metal song even though instrumentals don’t tell this tale.

“None for All” is an album that will surprise my dear child of the night. It’s an album full of shifts and changes of heart. I only tell my dear child to avoid grand finale “Francis Forever.” It isn’t worth the while.

Dead Harrison “None for All” was released on April 19th.

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