Kylesa - Spiral Shadow (2010)
Kylesa - Spiral Shadow (2010)
EAC Rip | FLAC, CUE+LOG | 271 MB | Front Cover (300dpi) | Hotfile/ Fileserve
Progressive/ Sludge Metal | Season Of Mist, SOM 220D
New album from this thundering Georgia crust-metal band. Produced by the band's own Phillip Cope.
EAC Rip | FLAC, CUE+LOG | 271 MB | Front Cover (300dpi) | Hotfile/ Fileserve
Progressive/ Sludge Metal | Season Of Mist, SOM 220D
New album from this thundering Georgia crust-metal band. Produced by the band's own Phillip Cope.
A groove band above all else, like so many of their swampy Southern forebears, Kylesa use their two-drummer setup not to show off their skill with complex polyrhythms but to give those grooves even more heft and drive. And whether bellowed by Philip Cope or sung with witchy intensity by Laura Pleasants, just about every song has a chorus that immediately stamps itself on your brain. In that sense, Spiral Shadow is damn near a pop album. Of course, only "Don't Look Back" actually sounds radio-ready, but gloriously so, with a fat ear-worm riff, swooning wordless background harmonies straight out of the Kevin Shields playbook, and the biggest of the album's big-ass choruses. And ambitious as they are, Kylesa always come back to pleasing the core headbanging audience. They still admirably deliver when it comes to metal's air-punching, meat-and-potatoes riffs, and they want to keep the energy as high as possible, which is perhaps why they've been able to hold onto much of the no-bullshit-allowed hardcore crowd, even as their music has become less uncompromisingly abrasive.
Ten years into an unbroken wave of revitalized and omnivorous metal bands, it feels almost ridiculous to have to keep saying this, but: If you're not paying at least some attention to this stuff, you're screwing up. Like many of the best "extreme" metal albums in 2010, Spiral Shadow is less about alienating outsiders through heaviness, volume, or violence than it is about blurring those extremes (hook and noise, dreamy and ragged, virtuosity and bluntness, metal and pop) on the same record, on the same songs. Captivatingly intricate without sacrificing rough and tough forward drive, accessible without sinking into commercialized blandness, Kylesa offer the pretty irrefutable truth that metal's still the best place to find rock that actually rocks, that there's plenty of boot-to-the-sternum kick left in the old beast after all.-Jess Harvell, pitchfork.com
Tracklist:
1. Tired Climb (03:21)
2. Cheating Synergy (02:52)
3. Drop Out (04:29)
4. Crowded Road (03:30)
5. Don't Look Back (03:21)
6. Distance Closing In (03:52)
7. To Forget (03:33)
8. Forsaken (03:42)
9. Spiral Shadow (05:13)
10. Back and Forth (02:33)
11. Dust (03:45)
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EAC extraction logfile from 25. October 2010, 15:43
Kylesa / Spiral Shadow
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EAC extraction logfile from 25. October 2010, 15:43
Kylesa / Spiral Shadow
Used drive : _NEC DVD+-RW ND-3650A Adapter: 4 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
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Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 48
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Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
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Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 320 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
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Line-up:
Phillip Cope - Guitar, Vocals (Damad)
Laura Pleasants - Guitar, Vocals
Carl McGinley - Drums, Noises (Unpersons, Bite Itself, ismb…d, Whiskey Dick (USA))
Eric Hernandez - Drums (Capsule)
Corey Barhorst - Bass (Cobra Kai)
Recorded at the Jam Room June 2010.
Mastered at Studio B Mastering.
Special Edition of the Album comes with a 3D Cover and a DVD.