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All star band KRUX boosts members like Leif Edling (CANDLEMASS) on bass, Mats Lev\u00e9n (ex YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, FIREWIND) on vocals, and Fredrik \u00c5kesson (OPETH, ex TALISMAN). And of cause J\u00f6rgen sandstorm, guitars (ex GRAVE, ex. ENTOMBED), drummer Peter Stj\u00e4rnvind (ex ENTOMBED) and Carl Westholm, keys , who featured on a.o. CANDLEMASS and ABSTRAKT ALGEBRA albums, are no beginners either. This their first album with a title and a number is described as a feast for everyone into doom, heavy, epic and powerful music. Well, well, impress me!?<\/p>\n
The opening title track starts as an elegant CANDLEMASS variation, complete with space-like guitars and keyboards. The slight lack of refrain power prevents it from being a five star opening. The more enigmatic and KRUX unique doom in \u201cThe Hades Assembly\u201d may have a haunting melody, but it has far less attraction on me. The atmosphere, the doom, the spaced-out titles, and the cool elegance with which KRUX perform and convince is a surefire winner in 2011. I feared an album like \u201cDactylis Glomerata\u201d but got an elegant CANDLEMASS variety which boasts influences from a wider variety of bands. The most evident are slower doom, like TROUBLE, who\u00b4s guitarist Bruce Franklin performs a solo on \u201cA Place of Crows\u201d. But there is also more than a hint of KING DIAMOND is songs like \u201cSmall Deadly Curses\u201d and \u201cThe Death Farm\u201d. The 10.40 long \u201cPrince Azaar and the Invisible Pagoda\u201d sounds like material for your worst and most drab nightmare, but it is a witty piece of atmosphere, grooves, movements and variation. Bravo! Bravo is also the all-in all judgement, this is a contender for the best of 2011 list\u2026<\/p>\n
Track list
\nHe Who Sleeps Amongst the Stars
\nThe Hades Assembly
\nEmily Payne (and the Black Maze)
\nSmall Deadly Curses
\nPrince Azaar and the Invisible Pagoda
\nThe Death Farm
\nA Place of Crows<\/p>\n
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