Thorndale – Spiritual Chains
Self-released – 2025
Metal, Stoner, Doom
Rated: ***
It’s only been one and a half years since Stoner HiVe had the honor to premiere the full Thorndale album named Lightning Spawn. And now, they are back with more! More music, more metal and more members! For the three have turned to four and the music has turned into a six track, almost twenty-five minute long heavy metal adventure. Spiritual Chains is mercilessly heavy and masterful in its dosage, the razor sharp riffs cut through the overall sound together with the occasional guttural vocals. Snarling solo work has the ability to turn the sound into a moment of crystal, as that classic heavy metal sound thunders on beneath. Quantifying the different parts of their compositions seems to come completely natural to the four and you won’t hear them endlessly weaving guitar scores together, instead they offer up all their metal in bitesize proportions. Chunks of mouthwatering metal, stoner touched, doom sniffed, but chiefly steeped in heavy metal tradition. You know the kind, riffs a plenty and solo’s that beg for that air guitar that you hung up on the wall, besides your hat and boots… Grab then from the wall and play along!
(Written by JK)
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