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- Summary: The Savannah, Georgia, band's new album incorporates psychedelic experimentalism with heavy riffs and sludgy doom metal.
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- Record Label: Season of Mist
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal
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| Don't Look Back | |
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| Pictures of my youth ask if I've become what I wanted to Keep moving, don't look back Moments of challenged clarity Distorted effect on... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Oct 26, 2010The mix is somehow both spacious and full, with each instrument clearly audible at all times, yet making up one part of a majestic whole. This is a great psychedelic hard rock album, only occasionally returning to the sludgy metal of Kylesa's early releases.
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Oct 25, 2010Spiral Shadow might just be the album of the year so far. All hail the kings (and queen) of nouveau-prog.
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Nov 2, 2010Whether bellowed by Philip Cope or sung with witchy intensity by Laura Pleasants, just about every song has a chorus that immediately stamps itself on your brain. In that sense, Spiral Shadow is damn near a pop album.
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Kerrang!Oct 25, 2010This is still towering, hazy, stoner metal--it's just shaped with more craft than once before and is therefore far more interesting. [16 Oct 2010, p.50]
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Nov 4, 2010These perennial up-and-comers are now operating at an elite level. Welcome to the upper tier of American metal, kids.
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RevolverNov 1, 2010Kylesa nods toward their feral past as choruses make muscular concessions to hardcore floor-punches. But other tracks are their artiest and dreamiest yet. [Nov/Dec 2010, p.96]
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Oct 26, 2010The 78-minute Spiral Shadow supersizes everything, from song lengths to layers of deep-focus space-rock effects, but the sprawling songs are still built around riffs as sweaty as a south Georgia summer.
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Nov 27, 2010
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