The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre review
| Band: | The Devil's Blood |
| Album: | The Thousandfold Epicentre |
| Style: | Hard rock |
| Release date: | November 2011 |
01. Unending Singularity
02. On The Wings Of Gloria
03. Die The Death
04. Within The Charnel House Of Love
05. Cruel Lover
06. She
07. The Thousandfold Epicentre
08. Fire Burning
09. Everlasting Saturnalia
10. The Madness Of Serpents
11. Feverdance
Retro-esque bands are always a touchy subject. On one hand, you've got the obvious downside; it is quite derivative. On the other hand, when it's done right, you've got a celebration of past greats. There's absolutely nothing wrong with digging up the past, so long as you do it with some creativity and personality. Let's just say The Devil's Blood do it with class; a blatant nod to the past, combined with a little bit of harder-edged modernization and just enough of their own flavour to make it distinct.
We're living in an era that is celebrating the modernization of classic rock - The Sheepdogs, The Black Keys, and maybe to a slightly lesser extent Rival Sons & The Answer have all seen their share of praise from mainstream media. While these bands achieved their accolades by creating some easy flowin', radio friendly rock n roll, The Devil's Blood chose a path that nods more toward the dark, menacing, noisy psychedelic. They pull off the psychedelic in a fashion that's equally experimental as it is accessible. It's the noise found in 70's LSD-soaked experimental rock, put through a heavy 2000-whatever era studio, interwoven with melodic riffs that sound like Quentin Tarantino's wet dream.
Oh, and those vocals! Man, do they ever tie the whole thing together; bringing in mind something along the lines of Janis Joplin. So the timbre might only rarely sound similar, but the delivery is along the same stream; a somewhat controlled wailing, that sounds more natural, and emotive than focused on being as technically precise as possible (not say this lady doesn't have the chops.)
Sure, you're probably not going to hear The Thousandfold Epicentre on the radio alongside many of these other retro bands popping up these days, but The Devil's Blood are offering something a little less moon-spoon-june, creating music that makes a nice & friendly crossroad between derivation and innovation.
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| Milena gloom cookie Staff Posts: 4603  |
I shall seek this out at once.
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 8983  |
TO ITUNES!!!!
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| K✞ulu Seeker of Truth Posts: 2570  |
I will check this... but I wonder whether the modern production is not ruining the psychedelia. I guess you have no problems with it. Also a woman on vocals... she better be good...
---- Savor what you feel and what you see Things that may not seem important now But may be tomorrow R.I.P. Chuck Schuldiner Satan was a Backstreet Boy
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| Eidwlon Posts: 13  |
I just realised I read an interview with the guitarist in the newspaper last week. It was about his motivation in life. What a loser... he seemed to be a very childish man, to me at least. Therefor, although this review caught my eye in a positive way, I don't think I will be checking out this band.
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| pisymbol Posts: 193  |
Written by Eidwlon on 09.01.2012 at 17:28 You sure? See here... http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2012/01/interview-selim-lemouchi-of-the-devils-blood ...for a nice interview with the founder and major force behind The Devil's Blood. EDIT: URL tags are not working for whatever reason.
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| @gent_-_orange Posts: 905  |
Written by Guest on 09.01.2012 at 18:48 iTunes is convenient I agree but I personally cant stand not having a physical copy of an album. Given the choice I would always buy the CD. Nice review btw.
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 8983 |
Written by @gent_-_orange on 09.01.2012 at 19:07 I also prefer to have the cd, but most of the time my. Cd stores don't have don't have what I'm looking for 
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| DahliaRock Posts: 151  |
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by pisymbol on 09.01.2012 at 18:23 I just inserted the [ url ]...[ /url ] tag and it works
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by Eidwlon on 09.01.2012 at 17:28 If there is one inetresting guy it's Selim. Can you link me up to the newspaper article? Cause all the interviews I have read with him he was interesting, even though I didn't agree with most of what he said. I see you have Arckanum in your fav bands, then I guess you never read an inetrview with that guy, cause he comes across a lot more childish in his beliefs than Selim.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| @gent_-_orange Posts: 905 |
Written by Boxcar Willy on 09.01.2012 at 21:54 Same here, TBH I cant remember the last time I bought a CD from a major store (Such as HMV) best off looking at smaller record stores who can order in the CD from wherever Or you could hit up a distributor on-line or use Amazon or something along those lines (if possible of course)
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| pisymbol Posts: 193 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 09.01.2012 at 22:10 Interesting, I typically use [ url name=<address>]<highlighted text>[ / url] Please click here This works when I submit news. Not for regular posts.
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 8983 |
Written by @gent_-_orange on 09.01.2012 at 22:32 Seeing as I dont have a job, i dont have a credit card, so i canty make online purchases very easy, but i can buy pre-paid visa's. however they have lots of taxes on them. sometimes HMV can order me stuff in, however it takes forever.
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 8983 |
Written by Guest on 10.01.2012 at 01:12 true  I'm applying at good ol' McDonalds soon.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by Guest on 10.01.2012 at 01:12 I bet it doesn't even come close to what I spent on cd's, vinyls, cassettes in 2011  thank God I don't have a credit card or paypal account or it would have been even more. I just just pay via bank transfer within Europe, long live SEPA.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| snake? snaaaake! Account deleted |
snake? snaaaake!
Account deleted Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 10.01.2012 at 01:14 It probably doesn't even compare to what you've probably spent on 2011 Doom releases
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18276  |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 10.01.2012 at 01:15 It's so much that Marcel has to post twice about it.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
A cookie for the one that comes closest when guessing the amount in Euros.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by pisymbol on 10.01.2012 at 00:51 I see where you went wrong it should be [ url = http://blablabla ]highlighted text[ /url ]
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| gav1230 Posts: 73  |
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snake? snaaaake!
Account deleted Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 10.01.2012 at 01:20 Well i've spent about £4500 (roughly ?5400) in 2011.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by Guest on 10.01.2012 at 16:47 let mme see how much that is in Euros. Okay that would be a little under 6000 euros. In total I spend just above 8000 euros on cds, casettes and vinyls.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18276 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 10.01.2012 at 16:50 What the....How the... I don't even...? This reaction is actually honest because I totally forgot about the number when we talked about it a while ago so I was going to bet on 4000 or something.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| deepwithin Posts: 8 |
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| pisymbol Posts: 193 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 10.01.2012 at 16:50 ~10k USD. Really? I thought I was bad. I spent a few hundred bucks in the last 3 months on CDs.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by deepwithin on 10.01.2012 at 16:54 I find them not good live at all. I have seen them live 7 times now, both in clubs and at festivals and only the last time, the 7th were they good live. But then again they played just over two hours that time and started just after midnight. My biggest problem with them live is that Farida's vocals are powerless in a live atmosphere. As for retro doom  there is next to no doom in their sound even though doom fans generally like them.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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