SPIRITWORLD – ‘Helldorado’ – RockZone

Stu Folsom, a thinking mind after Spiritworld, evolves the musical concept, without great shocks delivering a concise album, direct to the jugular and that will delight those who enjoyed their previous installment. Needless to say, it sounds like thunder in the desert.

Las Vegas quintet surprised his own and strangers, with his second album Deathweestern With an amalgam of riffs slayerianos With hardcore spirit and Far West and the B series as a backdrop, resulting in an irresistible cocktail freak The most effective.

In Helldorado We find accurate and fast bullets such as ‘No Vacancy in Heaven’ with a riff very close to the latest Metallica, ‘Western Stars & The Apocalypse’ or ‘Waiting on the reaper’ clear examples of the style they practice: guitars to Slayer, choirs hardcorianos and syncopated rhythms of Hatebreed. They collaborate, rightly, on the album SGAH’GAHSOWÁH, -BLACKBRAID, American Native American Metal Metal- Zach Blair, guitar of our dear Rise Against in ‘Oblivion’ and the bassist of Kreator, Frederic Leclercq, in ‘Stigmata Scars’.

We attend an extension of the compositional battlefield, delivering songs closer to the country rocklike the initial ‘Abilene Grime’ in which folsom dresses cowboy‘Bird Song of Death’ in which they sound to pub rock, ideal while you cook a double ice whiskey in the Salo or the acoustic ballad quite achieved ‘Prayer Lips’.

The essence of the proposal remains intact, with that crossover metal so well resolved, horror stories in the old west and that look halfway from a movie spaghetti western and the Elvis of the last era. Beyond showing signs of exhaustion, in a very intelligent movement, new paths have started, which point to a more than interesting future in the next works of these outlaws.

JOAN CALDERON