A Black Moon Rising review...
Black Moon Rising - demos 2002
Yet another case of a heavy metal band with potential stranded
within something bearing vestiges of black metal format, Black Moon
Rising is a blues-based and high-energy hybrid of styles searching
for a clear statement of what it is in search of so that it may
complete its evolution. Vocals are howling excess, and riffs
somewhere between Judas Priest, Venom and Howlin' Wolf, with the
emphases in all the right places and the rhythm dead on each time.
Guitar jamming unfolds from within and vocal tracks as sung often
having the same sense of primitive and "technically" off-key
construction that Glenn Danzig's early work did, but with a sense of
placement in song that gives them a lilting profundity in context.
Often these songs are entirely cut from the blues background, but
they also can drop into black metal as well; most of it sounds
improvisational but it's not poorly done, and has a sense of humor.
Although personnel changes, impromptu recordings and random
production make it difficult to judge, this band appears to be
morphing into something like what St. Vitus could have been had they
had more instrumental ambition.
Yet another case of a heavy metal band with potential stranded
within something bearing vestiges of black metal format, Black Moon
Rising is a blues-based and high-energy hybrid of styles searching
for a clear statement of what it is in search of so that it may
complete its evolution. Vocals are howling excess, and riffs
somewhere between Judas Priest, Venom and Howlin' Wolf, with the
emphases in all the right places and the rhythm dead on each time.
Guitar jamming unfolds from within and vocal tracks as sung often
having the same sense of primitive and "technically" off-key
construction that Glenn Danzig's early work did, but with a sense of
placement in song that gives them a lilting profundity in context.
Often these songs are entirely cut from the blues background, but
they also can drop into black metal as well; most of it sounds
improvisational but it's not poorly done, and has a sense of humor.
Although personnel changes, impromptu recordings and random
production make it difficult to judge, this band appears to be
morphing into something like what St. Vitus could have been had they
had more instrumental ambition.