CURSE THE SON – Delirium

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• Band:
  CURSE THE SON
• Duration: 00:39:23
• Available from: 06/09/2024
• Label:

• Ripple Music

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Profound changes at Curse The Son: from the lineup that played on the previous “Excruciation” only the founder, Ron Vanacore, remains, on vocals and guitar, joined, for this new album, by his son Logan, a fourteen-year-old drummer, and by his long-time friend and collaborator Dan Weeden on bass.
If two thirds of the protagonists are new, what remains unchanged is, on the contrary, the sound of the band: even with “Delirium”, in fact, the Americans remain faithful to that stoner/doom metal steeped in desperation that they have been proposing since the beginning, a cry that comes from the depths, fueled by personal dramas and by that loss of relationships that the pandemic has accelerated irreversibly.
Fear, isolation, death are the themes covered in these nine pieces and, if on a lyrical level there are not many differences compared to the past, this time the atmospheres are less suffocating, as if they wanted to hit the listener with less violence but with a variety of more incisive solutions.
The rhythms are slowed down, the riffs are heavy and the singing is inspired by the best Ozzy, sometimes Wino, as the genre requires, but a blues soul emerges not far from that of the early Black Sabbath. A plaintive blues, which is impossible not to perceive in a song like “Liste Of Dead”, full of those sounds that marked the eponymous debut of the Birmingham group, or in the guitar riffs of “Riff Forest”, a robust instrumental whose title leaves no room for doubt.
Overall, the new rhythm section seems to have brought a breath of fresh air in the form of less monolithic and more dilated songs, so much so that there is even room for a stoner interlude with 'space' contours in the style of Nebula like “Brain Paint”, while “RIP”, a cover of Witchfinder General, does nothing but reiterate where it all began.
“Delirium” is another piece of a homogeneous discography, in terms of quality and type of proposal, with some small variations, always and in any case classifiable in a sound devoted to the tradition of groups such as Saint Vitus and The Obsessed, of which, once again, Curse The Son prove to be good interpreters.