LAS CRUCES |
| Take Corrosion Of Conformity, strip away all of the "commercial" aspects, cross them with Black Sabbath, supply the resulting band with hard and heavy riffs, mix in the last two albums by Solitude Aeternus - and you've got "Ringmaster" by Las Cruces. As far as I know, the band has been around for 4 years or so, and has built up quite a reputation in Texas as a hard working live band, which certainly shows in the maturity of this album. While sounding like the bands mentioned above, the music is in no way derivative. This is what a modern hard doom album should sound like - lots of heaviness, good riffs, catchy melodies and an honest intensity that is rare these days. Sadly, this album was difficult to find in Europe and I had to order from MeteorCity (very reliable, by the way). Well worth looking out for. Released by Brainticket Records Review by Neil Gallop |