{"id":83128,"date":"2020-04-08T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=83128"},"modified":"2020-04-21T14:21:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:21:57","slug":"album-review-black-magick-ss-rainbow-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-black-magick-ss-rainbow-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACK MAGICK SS – Rainbow Nights (2020) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

BLACK MAGICK SS
Rainbow Nights<\/strong><\/span>
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\nInfinite Wisdom (2020)<\/span>
Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Now here\u2019s an interesting band that I\u2019m so glad aren\u2019t just another occult-obsessed, female fronted doom act obsessed with 70s satanic movies while worshipping marijuana. Although I\u2019m sure that the peculiarly named Black Magick SS from Australia has its vices.<\/p>\n

Rainbow Nights<\/em> is a cosmic trip into fantasy land; a weird yet oh so right blend of nostalgia yet futuristic synth rock that for some reason has me reaching for my Warning (the odd, dark wave-cum-doom 80s act from Germany) vinyl.<\/p>\n

It deserves its place in Metal Forces<\/em> because there are strong New Wave Of British Heavy Metal styles applied, and let\u2019s not forget those at times gruff and unsettling vocals. I can see many a reviewer throwing such an album into the stoner \/ doom pot, but there\u2019s a lot more to this that meets the third eye, the mysterious clan providing a weird, psychedelic soundtrack of hellish hallucinations, eerie folk horror soundscapes and sinister, yet heightened synth sensibilities.<\/p>\n

Within it all there\u2019s still a cool and mysterious hard rock album, as witnessed on the kaleidoscopic opener \u2018Endless Hallucinations\u2019, while the title track is a deft dose of galactic prog rock. This is the sort of drama the 70s got bogged down with. Only in this case, Black Magick SS take such a brand to new levels of fancy, speeding up such a self-indulgent art and daubing it with an unnerving vocal sneer before further epic vocal croons come to the fore, soaring above the pink clouds as those driving synths toy with equal frantic guitar parts. It\u2019s all a very intriguing marrying of styles without ever being complex.<\/p>\n

\u2018Get Out\u2019 simmers nicely, being Gothic in its fluent strains, dark wave… new wave… who or what is it? Does it belong? Meanwhile, \u2018Kali\u2019 features a strong and sinister guitar tone, with flecks of Angel Witch in that brooding trudge of unintentional doom. Damn, it\u2019s a steely, fiery riff wrenched from the early 80s as again I\u2019m reminded of the mystical Warning. Then we have that schizophrenic vocal. Initially it\u2019s that devilish demonic growl, but the chorus brings something more commanding and higher while the killer riff remains, burning and weaving through this Technicolor landscape. I\u2019m soaking it in, seeing these guys opening for, say, Ghost, but kinda hoping they won\u2019t become embroiled in such a \u201cscene\u201d, such is the mesmeric and original quality of this coven.<\/p>\n

\u2018Mothers Lullaby\u2019 feels dramatic, epic and progressive. Black Magick SS take me on a weird, slightly unsettling floating trip \u2013 the vocal effects send a tingle as the track expands, stretching out like a vast palatial view of twinkling synths.<\/p>\n

Finally, we\u2019re at the closing track \u2018The Truth\u2019 where that gravelled vocal grin works in tandem with another dirty yet jaunty riff. It\u2019s clever stuff, occult-laced and brimming with mysticism. \u201cYou want it… you need it\u201d are words I\u2019ll repeat back to anyone who needs to hear the \u201cnext best thing\u201d in music. Some may argue that the album lacks \u201cmetal\u201d, but just check out the killer axe work on this last track.<\/p>\n

Black Magick SS is a heavy rock act with a difference, so take the trip and enjoy the ride to the dark side.<\/p>\n

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

BLACK MAGICK SSRainbow Nights Infinite Wisdom (2020)Rating: 8.5\/10 Now here\u2019s an interesting band that I\u2019m so glad aren\u2019t just another occult-obsessed, female fronted doom act obsessed with 70s satanic movies while worshipping marijuana. Although I\u2019m sure that the peculiarly named Black Magick SS from Australia has its vices. Rainbow Nights is a cosmic trip into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4471],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-black-magick-ss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83128","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=83128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83130,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83128\/revisions\/83130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}