BUS - Never Decide - review
BUS - Never Decide - review
Tracklist
01. You Better Come In You Better Come Down02. The Hunt
03. I Buried Paul
04. Into The Night
05. Lucifer
06. Moonchild
07. Evil Eyes
08. This King
A review by
BitterCOld June 05, 2019
Never Decide is a rollicking, fuzzed-out and riffed up stoner rock meets doom affair, with a good dose of the 70s. Not the same kind you've heard in numerous other acts as of late, but going a bit further back to the late 60's early 70s.
BUS, ushers you in with "You Better Come In You Better Come Down", one of the most rockingist tracks on the album and therefore a great way to get you in the door. So now you're blazed up and likely haven't settled down.
As the next couple tracks unfold you're exposed to the breadth of what BUS are capable of. They aren't a one-trick pony punching out eight rocking stoner tracks that lose impact as the album goes on? instead while everything is strung together with the hemp thread of stoner.
"The Hunt" sees the band downshift and apply the brakes and doom out, whereas "I Buried Paul" see's the band invoke the sinister-sounding bastard offspring of The Doors' "L'america" and Pink Floyd's "Corporal Clegg". It's got that march-like feel of one kicking off to off-kilter bridge. From their more "Sinister Floyd" ensues as "Into The Night" starts off like some malevolent reinterpretation of "One Of These Days" before slowly morphing into a slow-bang metal track.
That's what ultimately elevates the album. They are capable of executing multiple stylistic shifts within the overall vibe. It's an interesting and engrossing listen. The second half the album isn't quite as exploratory, but each song shifts in sound and approach.
The guitar work is great, I love the riffs, the soli and just the tone itself. The vaguely Ozzy-like vocals (complete with an "Oh Yeah!" in the opening volley of "Evil Eyes" work for the album, but if not your cup of Greek mountain tea, no worries as they aren't horribly upfront in the mix.
So we're closing in in the halfway point of the year, checked out a lot of albums, many of them rather good, but Never Decide by BUS is currently parked on the top of 2019's Metal Mount Springfield, with Otto and I trading slugs of aguardiente.
Get yourself to [url= https://bustheunknownsecretary.bandcamp.com/]bandcamp[/url] and get hit by the BUS
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 9 |
| Songwriting: | 9 |
| Originality: | 8 |
| Production: | 9 |
Written on 05.06.2019 by
Written on 05.06.2019 by
BitterCOld has been officially reviewing albums for MetalStorm since 2009. Comments
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Great review of a great album. I'm sure BUS will be delighted that their Athenian fuzz has found its way to Colombia in such a convincing manner. ¡Salud!
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Posts: 15359 Written by nikarg on 05.06.2019 at 16:39 just glad to have stumbled across the album during my internet travels. sat on the album for about a month or so to see if the buzz wore off over time... it didn't. great stuff.
---- get the fuck off my lawn. Beer Bug Virus Spotify Playlist crafted by Nikarg and I. Feel free to tune in and add some pertinent metal tunes!
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This is pretty good, I listened a bit on bandcamp, I'm gonna listen to the whole thing definitely.
---- I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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No way in hell I could have guessed that this awesome stoner shit is from Greece. Damn good fun album to chill to on a lazy sunday
---- You are not metal enough until you visit Kenya. The cradle of mankind, where man learnt first to work with stones and first enjoyed the sounds produced by banging stones which later influenced metal in all its sounds and genres.
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Posts: 8256 Written by tintinb on 26.07.2020 at 20:35 You wouldn't believe how big this scene is in this country. It is actually getting annoying, everyone is in a stoner or quasi-stoner band these days. If you like the style check out these guys, they are the hottest band right now and just signed to Napalm Records.
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Posts: 15359 Written by nikarg on 27.07.2020 at 01:09 Noted.
---- get the fuck off my lawn. Beer Bug Virus Spotify Playlist crafted by Nikarg and I. Feel free to tune in and add some pertinent metal tunes!
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Posts: 8671 Written by nikarg on 27.07.2020 at 01:09 Netzach shared their most recent album with me, quality record (although I find myself fluctuating between loving and disliking the bouzouki(?) parts depending on the song)
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