{"id":102707,"date":"2024-03-08T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=102707"},"modified":"2024-03-22T10:01:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T10:01:49","slug":"album-review-early-moods-a-sinners-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-early-moods-a-sinners-past\/","title":{"rendered":"EARLY MOODS – A Sinner\u2019s Past (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

EARLY MOODS
A Sinner\u2019s Past<\/strong><\/span>
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\nRidingEasy (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s good to see Los Angeles, California-based doomsters Early Moods back in the old routine of channelling traditional, heavyweight Candlemass, Pentagram, Witchfinder General and the more syrupy aspects of Soundgarden. Those with a penchant for the stripped back late 70s and early 80s mustiness will really enjoy this eight-song slab.<\/p>\n

This sophomore outing was always going to be a winner after the band\u2019s superb self-titled<\/a> 2022 debut album, although the quintet has really excelled when it comes to creating memorable riffs, but most importantly is the fact that for 50 whole minutes the band maintains the quality. It\u2019s so easy for doom bands to wane as their album unravels, but Early Moods keeps up the variety towards the back end of the opus.<\/p>\n

Doom metal can at times bore, but there are so many songs here that brim with a character as \u2018Walpurgis\u2019 bubbles with a psychedelia, while \u2018The Apparition\u2019 literally makes the hairs on the back of the neck stand up due to its brooding nature. Early Moods have the ability to take what are essentially traditional and stark doom designs but inject an energy that prevents them from being mundane.<\/p>\n

Amidst the heavy rolls the band charges things up with \u2018Hell\u2019s Odyssey\u2019 and the title track, both of which break away from the more solemn grooves and in turn bring a degree of lighter stirs. Obviously there are elements of Black Sabbath<\/a> with the record and in turn Trouble, particularly in some of the bass work from Elix Felciano.<\/p>\n

Opening track \u2018Last Hour\u2019 and the excellent \u2018Blood Offerings\u2019 are certainly no stranger to those traditional elements which also come caressed with a Candlemass haze. Alberto Alcaraz remains reflective on those vocal tones and he is complimented wonderfully by the sometimes grunge-caked riffs of Eddie Andrade and the phantasmal leads of Oscar Hernandez.<\/p>\n

Although this is a fine tome of a record it doesn\u2019t match the impact of the debut, simply because I knew what was coming this time around, but A Sinner\u2019s Past<\/em> remains an often ominous long-player that acts as a stormy soundtrack to watch the grey skies gather.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EARLY MOODSA Sinner\u2019s Past RidingEasy (2024)Rating: 8\/10 It\u2019s good to see Los Angeles, California-based doomsters Early Moods back in the old routine of channelling traditional, heavyweight Candlemass, Pentagram, Witchfinder General and the more syrupy aspects of Soundgarden. Those with a penchant for the stripped back late 70s and early 80s mustiness will really enjoy this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4944],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-early-moods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102708,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102707\/revisions\/102708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}