Froglord – Sons Of Froglord
Self released – 2023
Rock, Stoner, Metal, Blues
Rated: ***
I am doomed to remember which year it actually was, not because my memory is necessarily shot or because time has been speeding up or because all time seems to have been morphing into one long period of weirdness, but because it feels like it was around that moment in history when time had stopped and the world stopped turning and we all thought this would be a watershed moment and society would never be the same afterwards. Indeed, ’twas during the pandemic when the Froglord came to me. Demanded my obedience and my aid in saving as much frogs as possible. We complied and since we can do little else, we just wrote a few lines about the Froglord’s 2021 album Save The Frogs. It was a one Frog operation, but ever since that time and the end of the pandemic, and releasing some more music, the Froglord has managed to surround himself with a few more amphibian freaks and turned his project into a quartet and his following into one big slimy bunch of crazies. The amount of releases on his bandcamp site is actually staggering and now, on July 7th it will house yet another full-sized album called Sons Of Froglord. No less than eleven swampy, dank, foggy, bluesy, and intensely groovy stonerrock tracks. Southern touches, metal moments, a bit of doom, a bit of psych and all inspired by that seventies era of rock. Indeed, Sons Of Froglord sports everything a heavy rock fiend could possibly need, and all done like they were jumping through the marshes. Indeed, Frogs that have come from the bayou, and in fact the final track is a Creedence Clearwater Revival cover of the Born On The Bayou track. And done in a very hot way! We’re glad we helped save some frogs, cause if even one of them is now a member, we aided in a tiny and very minuscule way in the best Froglord album to date!
(Written by JK)
