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Heavy Lord
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Chained to the World
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Solitude Productions
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Heavy Lord is a hard working act from Hellevoetsludge (Hellevoetsluis) in the Netherlands. After a self-financed album they signed to Russia’s Solitude Productions, who released their 2006 album “From Cosmos to Chaos” which was well received. For this new album they went to the Void Studio in Eindhoven to record with Pieter Kloos, who gave them a rich and heavy sound; exactly what these guys need with their brand of sludgy doom. Musically you can place them somewhere in between acts like Down, Crowbar, ElectricWizard and similar acts. They really know how to create some fine and heavy riffs and the typical yet suitable vocals of Steve fit the music very well.
Having been able to witness a couple of songs in a live environment before hearing them recorded gave me the advantage to really think about the songs and the way they work. Most tracks are simply well written but here and there I think they should have given the compositions a bit more thought as, to me, it feels a bit like they have just pasted a riff onto the preceding riff which makes it sound a bit unnatural. This, however, is just a minor detail and only counts for some songs; most of ‘em are simply good.
Within this genre Heavy Lord are probably the best Holland has to offer at this time and for the vinyl freaks I can tell that an LP version is available too in a limited run of 500 copies.
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Pim Blankenstein
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Pantheon I
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Worlds I Create
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Tenet
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Sovereign
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Arkaea
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Years In The Darkness
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Rape Pillage and Burn
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Songs Of Death...Songs Of Hell
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Cruciamentum
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Convocation of Crawling Chaos
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Bloodsin
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Tales from the Dissecting Table
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The Darkest Red
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Destroy & Rebuild
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Killswitch Engage
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Killswitch Engage
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Obituary
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Darkest Day
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