Conan – Violence dimension

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6.5

• Band:
  Conan
• Duration: 00:59:24
• Available from: 25/04/2025
• Label:

• Heavy Psych sounds

“Violence dimension” is the first Conan album with David Ryley on bass; The former Fudge Tunnel has already been widely run in the live, and here adds naturally, through its four strings, tons of Fuzz and Pace to the already full -bodied sound of the Liverpool band.
No particular surprise among the furrows – and we would miss – to the point we prefer to opt for a quick regesto in pills song for song; Also because of chips of particular interest, compared to the always high profession, we have caught few. “Foeman's Flesh” is a powerful and hallucinated piece, with a nice low button and Sabbathian, a real strength of the disc and an element of merit for the new entry in formation. “Desolation Hexx” and “Frozen Edges of the Wound”, thanks to a more contained duration, are instead the most immediate moments: excellent riffs, Belluini refrains, tight rhythms with effective changes of speed: both play already perfect for an intense combed in the live site, they are perfect paradigms of the trio, but they precisely emerge in a cauldron often too much, too much.
“Total Bicep” is the most classic and devastating of the front attacks in Conan sauce: bass, drums and guitar proceed in unison as a crushing, while the ticking title-track is a semi-instrumental smoky and exhausting doom, in which Jon Davis's roche screams emerge only on the ending, with almost declamatory mode. “Warpsword” is a saber of just forty -five seconds, perfect for introducing the ribbering magma of “Ocean of Boyling Skin”, a track that has the strength in its psychotic slowdowns.
The limited edition Forni offers the closing the “Vortexxion” bonus track, a piece that is anything but unpleasant, but which with its twelve minutes of duration (totally instrumental) puts us in front of us, with even more vehemence than the standard version of the disc, to its only limit: five out of eight pieces move in the orbit of the ten minutes of duration; Excellent for creating alienation, but you lose some bite and you soon start wondering how many songs have already passed into the stereo.
The result, without leading to the complete disappointment, as mentioned, is an album perhaps not properly monocordic – also with respect to the expectations we have towards these three lovable caves – but definitely too diluted. A greater synthesis would not have spoiled.

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