The Hunt is the sixth studio album from Swedish three-piece metal band Grand Magus. This latest album has a real 70s hard rock\/heavy metal sound. Rival Sons have shown recently that a 70s sound can be brought up to date and sound fresh and still retain that classic hard rock sound, and now Grand Magus have done the same.<\/p>\n
Listening to the album you can certainly pick out some of the influences – Deep Purple, Rainbow, Dio, and Judas Priest. <\/p>\n
Opening track ”Starlight slaughter” would feel at home on a Deep Purple or Rainbow album particularly with its chorus. This is a great track and really sets the standard for the rest of the album to try and beat.<\/p>\n
”The Hunt” has a good heavy guitar riff and good solid drums, and later on includes some nice guitar work – all in all a good strong song.<\/p>\n
”Valhalla rising” is one of the standout tracks (along with Starlight slaughter) on the album – one of the heaviest songs on the album it has a seriously heavy guitar sound combined with a deceptively simple catchy chorus, this really is a great track.<\/p>\n
”Son of the last breath” opens with a classical intro with a strong folk feel, and the vocals then kick in giving the song a real folk ballad feel to it. Around half way through the song the pace changes and the power ramps up to make it a heavy rock song, before finally ending on a more mellow folk sound. At nearly seven minutes this is by far the longest song on the album<\/p>\n
There’s plenty of variety in this album and the strongly 70’s influenced sound works really well – this is definitely an album I’m going to be listening to a lot.<\/p>\n
The Hunt will be released on 25th May via Nuclear Blast.<\/p>\n
Track listing:<\/p>\n
1. Starlight slaughter
\n2. Sword of the ocean
\n3. Valhalla rising
\n4. Storm king
\n5. Silver moon
\n6. The hunt
\n7. Son of the last breath
\n8. Iron Hand
\n9. Draks\u00e5dd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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