AVATARIUM - Girl With The Raven Mask (4:10)
Album: The Girl With The Raven Mask (2015)
Label/Distribution: Nuclear Blast/Warner
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With AVATARIUM, Doom legend Leif Edling (Candlemass, Krux) has built up a fantastic new band where tough lava riffs meet seventies Hammond sounds. But above all, the incredible Jennie-Ann Smith is enthroned, whose gripping blues voice (Janis Joplin sends her regards!) gives you goose bumps. (Review: eclipsed 10/2015)
With the album "Waking Season" in 2012 Caspian set out to catch up to the top of New Artrock. The sextet from Massachusetts had succeeded in making a recording that was widely praised. A relatively quick successor, using the momentum of success, would certainly have been opportune. However, the death of bassist and Caspian co-founder Chris Friedrich intervened. The band has come to terms with the loss and presents itself stronger than ever.
