The Lumberjack Feedback – The Stronghold

 

 

The Lumberjack Feedback – The Stronghold
Argonauta Records – 2024
Instrumental, Rock, Metal, Post, Hardcore, Doom, Sludge
Rated: *****

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. There is always a shadow around the bend, waiting to obscure the light. One must be a sentinel, a guardian of virtue to continue to illuminate the path of righteousness. The new five track album The Stronghold feels like a manifestation of those feelings. And after reading some of the driving forces and thoughts the five-piece The Lumberjack Feedback had while creating this instrumental tour de force, one can only conclude they succeeded in translating what they wanted. Founded somewhere around the year 2008 and hailing from wonderful city of Lille in France, the five are releasing their newest album The Stronghold on Friday the 26th of April. And we are honored to be able to present the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE TOMORROW!

We also feel very privileged to have been living with this album for quite some time now. It’s an album based on two drummers complimenting each other and finding each other to drive the message home or to find a different space to inhabit while the other sets up the time and the signature of a massive groove. Offbeat one moment and like a motoring gargantuan stomping the terra together the very next. The two guitars moving around each other, translating that statuesque atmosphere or letting loose and assuming a more sludge core attitude. Those guitars, riffing, grinding or wailing over a bass that is there to provide groundwork for them to shine and at other times outshines them by mirroring a melody they provided. 

Opening track Kings And Servants immediately setting that solemn mood; yet riddled with so much suspense. Exploding into a prog metal, sludge toned and machinal middle piece, which keeps on pushing and subjugating the listener, until one bows before the almighty tone. And then and only then, will the track train on, like a massive steamroller. With this hallowed choir like sound lifting the entire compilation up to heavenly proportions. Praised The Lord For A Brighter Future is the following track, thunders through its opening, until the guitars get to pick up the groove, the flow and that circling melody, and an epic proportion of heaviness that feels like they are chiseling out an entire universe with the music they create. Building seems the operative word for this track. And the result is huge, breathtaking and worthy of every bit of your imagination. Failing To Witness His Mighty Work starts off post metal and prog rocking, before exploding into a mighty metal foray that unleashes so much fury and instrumentation, you are almost overwhelmed and can’t help but reach for and hold on to that acoustic guitar suddenly bursting through and offering succor. It’s the life line that will guide you through these tempestuous waters… 

There are five tracks on The Stronghold, but they feel like one big masterpiece, like thirty-seven minutes of instrumental metal, with post rock influences, prog, hardcore, doom and sludge that are like a robust and lofty wall to girdle in all that wants to burst free. For even the more subdued moments are always moving outwards, expanding and aiming to become bigger than the bastion that created them. Gallant and full of honor, the sonic universe of The Stronghold is alive with all the right virtues of humanity. And the listener might feel them while listening to this righteous tour de force…  

You want to feel all this and more?
Check in again tomorrow… 

For tomorrow we are honored to present to you the full album premiere of The Stronghold by The Lumberjack Feedback!

(Written by JK)

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