Dive Into The Sun
Stoner/Doom
2006
| The Band | The Music | The Rest |
| Ralph : Vocals | 1. Inside | Alone Records / AR-017 CD |
| Juan Luis : Guitars | 2. Doomdriver | Runnin' Time 1:06:14 |
| Charly : Guitars | 3. Wasted | |
| Miguel : Bass | 4. Dead Angeles | EAC v0.99pb5 Secure, No C2, Disable Cache |
| Ricky : Drums | 5. Winter Pain | Ape Monkey's Audio 4.05 |
| 6. Evil Number | Winrar 3.90 + 5% Recovery | |
| Official | 7. Wake Up | All Scans@300dpi |
| MySpace | 8. The Weatherman | Size: 483MB splitted into 3 files |
Chronique
(Desert-Rock.com)
Décidément, le label ibérique Alone Records ne finit pas de nous surprendre. Après quelques coups de maîtres (Yawning Man, Orquesta Del Desierto, Viaje A 800, Fooz…) et d’autres sorties plus dispensables (Ten East…) ils nous balancent cette bien agréable galette, à savoir le second album de Glow, quintette madrilène ma foi bien excitant. Alone joue ainsi parfaitement son rôle, en alternant sorties de groupes internationaux, et profond soutien de la scène espagnole, qui le vaut bien, semble-t-il !
Glow, donc. Second album (jamais entendu le premier, désolé). Du tout bon. Du lourd aussi, genre early Sabbath rencontre the Obsessed ; les riffs lourds du premier, le son gras et rêche du second. 8 chansons, presque 70 minutes, pas la peine de chercher très loin : si vous n'attendez d'un album qu'un flot ininterrompu de notes balancées à 200 à l'heure, passez votre chemin. Si en revanche vous aimez le doom "accessible", les vraies chansons, servies par des riffs tranchants et une rythmique solide et groovy, Glow me semble tout indiqué.
En effet, Glow finalement se détache avec bonheur du doom "pur et dur", et trouvent leurs marques en s'inspirant de leurs anciens "classiques" (voir les 12 minutes du pachydermique "Doomdriver", ses riffs lents et lourds), pour y injecter des touches bien à eux, un peu comme des groupes comme Solace peuvent aussi le faire. Exemple, cet orgue Hammond qui vient ponctuer les titres les plus pesants en leur donnant une fraîcheur inédite, presque décalée. Les influences ne manquent pas, et le groupe les assume le plus sainement du monde. Pourquoi tenter à tout prix de sortir de sentiers déjà empruntés par d'illustres prédécesseurs, au risque de tomber dans les travers de l'exercice de style stérile, alors que l'on peut se réapproprier un genre, le mener vers des chemins inédits, en l'enrichissant d'autres influences, d'autres idées…
Rendons aussi hommage aux musiciens, et notamment au chanteur, Ralph, dont le timbre délicieusement rocailleux et le coffre puissant apportent la touche finale à un ensemble par ailleurs irréprochable.
On a beau analyser, triturer le skeud dans tous les sens, au bout d'une dizaine d'écoutes, ce qui reste, c'est une poignée de compos passionnantes, dans le sens où l'on ne s'en lasse pas : on écoute et ré-écoute sans se lasser, en se laissant bercer et emporter par ces refrains mémorables et ces riffs qui tuent.
Bref, les extrémistes du doom (vade retro satanas) ne seront sans doute pas emballés par cette vague de fraîcheur et e naïveté apportée au genre. Les autres devraient être emballés par l'achat (peu onéreux, en plus !) de cette galette.
Reviews
(HellRiderMusic.com)
Glow's 'Gone, But Never Forgotten' topped my list for 2005. In the world of trad doom, it was a monster out of left field, the best of the best, first among equals. Nobody did bluesy doom better than these Spanish freaks - it was one of the finest interpretations of 70s influenced metal I had ever heard. My fervent prayer at the time was that for the love of all things holy and unholy, some wise label would sign these deserving doomsters and do 'em a proper.
As Robert Fripp says, sometimes God smiles. Glow is back, and Alone Records deserves boatloads of good karma for signing them up. The good news is that the group is wise enough to know not to screw around with a very good thing. The other good news is that this is not a simple repeat of 'Gone,' but an improvement, giving their distinctive grooving doom sound a more up to date aura without compromising it one iota. The production on 'Dive into the Sun' is better, with finer dynamics, clarity, and tone. There's plenty of distinctive bass drum, always a plus for doom records of the first rank. Perhaps the most noticeable change is in Ralph's vocals. Along with his trademark clean, soulful belting, there's plenty of vocal treatment going on, sometimes to good effect ('The Weatherman') and sometimes less so ('Inside.')
I hate to feed the vocalist-as-primadonna-syndrome, but there's no getting around the fact that Ralph is one of the best singers in music. Period. His passionate vocals recall the very best: Henk Armstrong, Paul Rogers, Pete Stahl, Chris Cornell, even Jadd Spiritu. There are few in that top rank, and Ralph's efforts on 'Dive' justify the album's purchase by themselves. But of course Ralph doesn't sing in a vacuum, and the group's musicianship is every bit his equal. Dip into the album with 'Dead Angels,' very probably the album's best tune, and a heavy qua heavy exercise in Sabbathy goodness, melodic and stomping. 'Winter Pain' is a loping, destroying monster, as if the King of the Wargs was holding a private dance for his pet dinosaurs. 'Evil Number' pumps the endorphins, a successful exercise in galloping blues doom, with some tasty cowbell to liven things up. As the title might suggest, 'The Weatherman' is the soundtrack to revolution, 1970 style. Who knows? If the song could be sent back in time, the U.S. might now be run by bomb-throwing anarchists.
Pounding, melodic, bluesy doom. That's what Glow is all about. Grooves and rhythmic change-ups, tone and emotion, buttery distortion and a retro Hammond. Glow's got it all,enough to loan to a hundred bands with plenty left over for themselves. These guys recreate Sabbath, Vitus, Trouble, Witchfinder General, Revelation, and other doom masters of the past, blend it with classic rock like Kansas and Rush, and come out somewhere south of Goatsnake, Abdullah, and Spiritu.
Simply stunning.
(LordsOfMetal.nl)
This CD is out for some time now but it arrives at my desk just now. Glow comes from Spain and that’s not the first country you think of when you listen to this CD. You would not think of the Sierra Nevada planes in Spain but rather of the Rocky’s in the US of A.
After the first hearing you can conclude that this is a band that has everything to be big in this genre. The sound is amazingly full, like everything has been hammered tightly shut with sound. It actually is an exciting experience to hear this CD. The Yin and Yang between the keyboards, guitar solos and the vocals are well timed and superbly played. I do like the vocals. Vocalist Ralph pulls himself loose from all the written rules of how to sing, making his effort a pleasant and relaxed way of singing. Naturally he sounds frustrated or angry or sad where he should sound like he’s frustrated, angry or sad. In this aspect he reminds me of Angry Anderson Of Rose Tattoo. Musically I hear the likes of The Obsessed, early Goatsnake and Abdullah. But own ideas, original ideas are plenty and that is a great achievement in this spectrum of metal where ideas are running empty. The seventies are not forgotten and find their way on the record by a great Hammond organ. I do love this instrument when used in the correct place. A small surprise: great music, great singer and not least a great packaging. Because admit, would you have thought this to be a Spanish band?
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