Lowdrive – Rise Review

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The initial main guitar riff fo album welcomer “UVOD” is totally and absolutely intoxicating and inebriating. The only problem with it is that, from where I’m standing, it’s too short. I wish Lowdrive would have used it for some minutes in the song. I would make it bigger into the song. The general mood of the two initial songs is of those Black Sabbath songs that don’t fit to Black Sabbath as “It’s Alright” from “Technical Ecstasy” era or other here and there songs as “Planet Caravan.” They are not only weird, but they don’t really sound as a Black Sabbath’s song. But, however, things change. Ah, they do change. From then on the album gets hard, real hard with an atmosphere of a Classic Rock milestone though with a Black Sabbath doom yet. Timewise, Lowdrive are located in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, a time when Metal music was forming for that the blended sonancy and the prone to write wondrous guitar riffs using phrases as in “Supergravity.” Some tracks as “Shield Wall” adress to the heaviest era of Deep Purple in the early 1970’s with “In Rock” or even “Fireball.” Classic Hard Rock for some or early Heavy Metal for others. The subtle yet hard interventions are the motto here as on the leads in the aformentioned track where a combination of overdriven guitars with a guitarist full of finesse does the magic.

The magic thing about “Rise” is that Lowdrive got exactly the spirit of the era they are recreating here with the amazing guitar riffngs filled with guitar phrases. That’s exactly what “Dope Priest” delivers us fans with exciting and heavy guitar shredds from the 1970s. I can’t help it but calling out the memories of The Cult when they left the Post Punk vibe to throw a more Metal approach. Well, almost three decades separate them all but that’s the main idea. It’s great to see how kids today are trying to bring back those sonancies from the past meaning that great music was made back then. I’ll say it again Lowdrive got exactly the spirit of the era. By the way, the CD cover is a bit unusual. I liked it!

Lowdrive “Rise” was released on September 08th via Cargo Records.

Track Listing:

  1. Uvod
  2. Rise
  3. Into the Light
  4. All Seeing Eye
  5. Blood Sacrifice
  6. Supergravity
  7. Shield Wall
  8. Dope Priest
  9. Chemical Child
  10. War Cry

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