Holy Grove

Remember when heavy rock bands wrote songs? In the early 70's, Grand Funk, Bang and Deep Purple brought hooks and choruses to seriously weighty tunes. In 2015, Portland, Oregon's Holy Grove alk in the footsteps of tradition, pitting soulful vocals, searing guitar solos, and swinging grooves into their own dinosaur stomp. After wowing US audiences for two years, the doom blues group is now ready to deliver their self-titled debut, with seven tracks top-full of blazing riffage, cloud-piercing wails, and enough rhythmic heft to satisfy today's doom-hungry audience. Andrea Vidal's lyrics of myth and fantasy coast on a massive magic carpet of guitar licks, kept aloft by a pulverizing rhythm section. Holy Grove is far more than a toe-dipped-in-the occult spring, they produce a patiently-crafted statement of intent with major love and assistance from master engine-ear Billy Anderson (Sleep's « Dopesmoker », The Melvins). For fans of: Blue Cheer, MC5, Clutch, Black Sabbath, Red Fang. Track Listing: Death Of Magic; Nix; Holy Grove; Huntress; Caravan; Hanged Man; Safe Return