{"id":15114,"date":"2013-10-18T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=15114"},"modified":"2013-11-13T01:33:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T01:33:15","slug":"album-review-monster-magnet-last-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-monster-magnet-last-patrol\/","title":{"rendered":"MONSTER MAGNET – Last Patrol (2013) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONSTER MAGNET
Last Patrol<\/strong><\/span>
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\nNapalm (2013)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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For stoner rock veterans Monster Magnet, their tenth studio album brings back the healthy bit of psychedelic 60s garage rock that the space cadets staked their claim on in the 90s.<\/p>\n

Hailed as a return to form, Last Patrol<\/em> is certainly getting a lot of much deserved attention for the boys often hailed as one of the hardest working bands in rock \u2019n\u2019 roll. The album comes complete with space oddity style concepts inspired by B-movies, comic books and healthy love for the dirtier side of rock \u2019n\u2019 roll. <\/p>\n

The album kicks off with a whimper instead of a bang, hauntingly creeping its way to life with the slow build of \u2018I Live Behind The Clouds\u2019. The vintage guitars and amps used here sound their best on this one, the warm tones keeping the song moving as vocalist Dave Wyndorf gently moans the lyrics. Modern technology would stagnate this song in a heartbeat. The song comes to a massive climax though, leading us into the plodding title track. \u2018The Last Patrol\u2019 sets the standard that the rest of the album will follow with its punchy rhythm sound and pissy guitars topped off by the hollow vocals Wyndorf is known for. <\/p>\n

This album gets grittier and grittier as it goes, only allowing you to take a breath here and there. \u2018Hallelujah\u2019 is a rock \u2019n\u2019 roll revival that should remind anyone that whatever Jet or Airbourne claimed they could do, it all trickled back to Monster Magnet. The dynamic cynicism of the lyrics and the bordering-on-jam-band territory second half of the song prove that Monster Magnet is the real deal… in case you were wondering. The rolling \u2018End Of Time\u2019 is another highlight, driven by its riffs and drum fills. It\u2019s just a non-stop barnburner that is, unfortunately, slightly crippled by its buried vocals. <\/p>\n

\u2018Three Kingfishers\u2019 is the album\u2019s most psychedelic piece overall. It\u2019s consistently a beast that would probably have been better suited in another decade alongside bands like Steppenwolf, Blue \u00d6yster Cult and Iron Butterfly in their primes. Its acid-trip sitar and sparse acoustic work are perfectly suited to the 2am munchies crowd, but the grinding guitar work that follows gives it an epic, distant feel that forces you to love it but leaves you wondering what the hell it could possibly be about. It\u2019s that weird. <\/p>\n

Overall, this is one of Monster Magnet\u2019s best. In the grand scheme of 2013, I don\u2019t think it\u2019ll be a top ten memory but it certainly puts the band back on the radar of those of us that love all kinds of great rock \u2019n\u2019 roll. And that\u2019s somewhere they haven\u2019t been for a few years. Last Patrol<\/em> breaks the band out of stoner rock hell in many ways, but in other ways it more fully embraces the style that the band helped bring into the mainstream so many years ago.<\/p>\n

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

MONSTER MAGNETLast Patrol Napalm (2013)Rating: 8\/10 For stoner rock veterans Monster Magnet, their tenth studio album brings back the healthy bit of psychedelic 60s garage rock that the space cadets staked their claim on in the 90s. Hailed as a return to form, Last Patrol is certainly getting a lot of much deserved attention for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,804],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-monster-magnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15114","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=15114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15117,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15114\/revisions\/15117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}