If you happen to like Grand Funk Railroad, Mountain, and Blue Oyster Cult, you'll like Blood of the Sun's In Blood We Rock.
Mountain is an obvious comparison, methinks, since the band's name would seem to come from the song of the same name by Leslie West, and crew, though, with less likelihood, it could come from the film with the same name. However, the truth is that--in the studio!--BotS is able to recreate the kick-ass, stadium filling sound of BOC and GFR.
But, what really sets BotS from other folks keep the torch of "classic rock" alive--like Stone Axe (truly the most immediate band for comparison), for example, is the use of organs which places the heaviness into whole 'nother realm, ala Atomic Rooster but having learned from the growth doom--even funeral doom, while also invoking the heavy progressive force of Fuzzy Duck, Atomic Rooster, and Lucfier's Friend. LF is also a good spring board into BotS since the switch into a genuine piano and slighter rock moments suggest the kind of honest unity of heavy and progressive that those german fiends conducted.
Though seemingly disbanded, the recently active Sir Hedgehog, who slammed down some excellent modern heavy prog, is a likely comparison, bu the vocals and heaviness of BotS bring to mind the Black Keys with greater speed than the Sir, and some of the effects imposed would make BK a better choice.
The band remembers all the best excesses of the 60's/70's--slaying riffs, pounding bass, wailing organs, and the occasional cowbell--to a great effect.
You've gotta listen to this, but, and even more importantly--if you can, get this on vinyl. It really deserves the fidelity and singular beauty of being a sacred relic and not another aethereal thing to scroll through.
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Expect more data to be spilt on their other two albums, Death Ride (2008) and their self titled (2009), in the future.
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