8 Priestess Hello Master RCA | 2006 | Album Biography Comments (0) Read Full Page Digg Review Add del.icio.us   The Montreal four-piece Priestess are ready to dish out something that hasn’t been seen in quite a while - full-blasting arena metal. Metal reached dizzying heights back in the 1980s before turning the edgy rock of their forefathers Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin into something of a joke that revolved more around big hair and blondes in wet t-shirts than music. While bands like Poison and Motley Crue made mistakes and threatened to destroy the genre forever, Priestess is looking to right those wrongs and bring the heavy side of rock back to the mainstream. Bring metal back from the underground dungeon-like basements where it has been lurking isn’t an easy thing, but this quartet proves their up to the challenge early on in their disc with the sonically heavy “Lay Down”. It’s a mass of ripping power chords that lays out exactly what these guys are capable of which, just happens to be everything! Even slower songs (nothing you could call a ballad though) don’t trip up Priestess. The weariness of the aching revenge song “Time Will Cut You Down” comes shining through, but there’s nothing sissy about it. The powerful lone wolf vocals of lead singer/guitarist Mikey Heppner wail out over a staccato drum beat that whips the song along like steamy desert winds. And if that wasn’t enough, these guys also prove to be deft songwriters and players. Priestess is a powerful band, but they keep their energy channeled. It never takes over to the point where they get sloppy. Instead, they emerge as one of the most primal music forces to appear on the scene in a long time. They handle women as sensitively as a band like this can on the urgent pounding song “Talk to Her” and even manage to pull off the more pop rock sound of their closer “Blood”. Just listen to the drums and guitars work together on this one and you’ll hear what most bands aspire to sound like. Hello Master is sure to have many followers lining up to serve these heavy metal rejuvenators. Amy Wagner Comments (0) Help Support Kevchino - Use these links to buy new music.

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