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Heavy Metal Fruit
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Connotations of the title for Motorpsycho’s 14th studio album may have you believe that they’ve returned to the heavy grunge birthing of Lobotomizer. Not the case thankfully (surely?) as this latest long player from the Norwegian rock stalwarts could be considered more “heavy metal guru†than straight up metal thanks to the astute production savvy of Kåre Vestrheim.
Opener ‘Starhammer’ nods toward Technical Ecstasy/Never Say Die era Sabbath – plenty of pomp to escort the epic rock circumstance – whereas tracks like ‘W.B.A.T.’ treads intricate jazz lines before intentionally collapsing in on itself to fiddle with progressive Waters/Gilmour-driven Pink Floydisms.
Think of it as an exercise in career honing if you will, where the band’s strengths have been cherry picked into an oblivion and each note carefully considered. None more so than on the closing twenty minute cruise of ‘Gullible’s Travels’, which takes in Gracious, May Blitz and Sabbath… a veritable smorgasbord onto itself.
Richard S Jones
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