'Awakening The Forest' is the third album of the Alunah originating from the British West Midlands. Is The foursome - Sophie Day (vocals, guitar), Dave Day (guitar), Dan Burchmore (bass) and Jake Mason (drums) - bringing a mix of doom metal, psychedelic rock, classic hard rock and elements of the blues. Names of bands like Black Sabbath and Cathedral shoot me spontaneously to mind when listening to this album. The heavy, bulky and solid rhythms, as in these two examples, interspersed with slightly bluesy and especially psychedelic feeling influences. That slow, unwieldy sounding "wall of sound" is broken and supplemented with handsome, drawn-out guitar interventions and especially by the incantation, extremely quiet and calm vocals of Sophie, which happened both powerful and soulful. Only six songs has this album, but they are also quite long drawn out without anywhere but to repeat or bored. It should also musically not always extremely heavy and cumbersome, they prove to the closing 'The Summerland, where calm, quiet and spellbinding acoustic guitars determine the intro, followed by the addition of bass and drums, the pace and strength a very slightly be increased without losing the conjuring and calm effect, and then later switch back to their "normal" powerful and heavy sound. It ensures immediately that you will be immediately after the psychedelic fade out the "repeat" button on your CD player is pressed again and again you delivered to the incantatory vocals and ponderous pace of this album. Along with Avatarium that Jennie-Ann Smith also been a vocalist in grades counts, this Alunah for me is the new hype in the world of doom metal.
Original Dutch Version: http://www.keysandchords.com/cd-metals-blog/alunah-awakening-the-forest
Original Dutch Version: http://www.keysandchords.com/cd-metals-blog/alunah-awakening-the-forest
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