{"id":96365,"date":"2022-09-01T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T23:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=96365"},"modified":"2022-10-24T14:16:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T13:16:42","slug":"ep-review-riffcoven-never-sleep-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-riffcoven-never-sleep-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"RIFFCOVEN – Never Sleep At Night EP (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

RIFFCOVEN
Never Sleep At Night EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nCospe Fogo Grava\u00e7\u00f5es (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Say what you want about the over-crowded \u201cdoom \/ stoner\u201d scene and its plethora of unoriginal, weed-drenched artists, but it\u2019s clearly a genre that\u2019s refusing to die. Riffcoven play their part in bulging the sides of the box that is brim full of similar bands, although I\u2019m hearing just as many, less fortunate garage acts outside of the box too.<\/p>\n

This Brazilian trio has a muscular vocal heave which in macho fashion coats the rest of the blubbery, rolling and often mountainous riffs. But other than that there\u2019s not a lot going on behind the cover art and this is my major gripe with this sort of stuff.<\/p>\n

The cover designs \u2013 often daubed in occult imagery \u2013 flatter to deceive because musically these sorts of bands bore me rigid, and sadly Riffcoven are no exception. At times there\u2019s a masculine mid-90s feel to the sound, suggesting an act that could easily have slotted alongside some of the grunge and groove metal acts of the time.<\/p>\n

Never Sleep At Night<\/em> offers three tracks and they all follow familiar themes whereby psychedelia of a rather monotone nature spirals in rather formulaic fashion to the drive of percussion and bass, while the shouty vocals desperately vie for your attention, summed up by the interpretation of The Stooges \u2018Loose\u2019.<\/p>\n

I just can\u2019t get excited by a Brazilian band worshipping the MC5 et al, but I\u2019m sure there\u2019ll be meatheads worldwide who\u2019ll sweat blood for this type of chest-pounding riffery that for me comes across as a decidedly average and derivative take on Helmet, Zodiac Mindwarp and Detroit rock.<\/p>\n

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

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