And speaking of Black Sabbath-esque instrumentals, bassist Keith Nickel is awesome. It's not only the play-style, but also the sound itself. Nothing overly complicated, but very Iommi-like and you just can't go wrong with that. Mark Thomas Baker's guitar and moog are very decent, too. It's very old school hard rock-esque and suits the music very well. He sings in a similar style to Ozzy, but his voice isn't the same at all.
There are of course exceptions and Orchid's Theo Mindell is just that. Perhaps not in music, as whole, but in many of these "retro-rock" bands that have spawned since the early 90s, the vocalists don't necessarily have a good voice or they're just plain and generic. It's all Sabbathy, alright?!Īs a band, the members involved certainly know their trade. A dark, but somewhat cozy atmosphere set by the bass and the sudden crashes of loud, bluesy guitars and drumming. "Black Funeral" is the album's "Hand of Doom". Fairly short (in comparison to the other songs), fun and rocks. The title-track is the album's "Paranoid". The rest of the album follows suit in a somewhat similar fashion. The song is fairly long and has interesting pace-changes, stylistic changes and great instrumental bits. Opener "Eyes Behind The Wall" kicks off the album with a cool Iommi-like (Vol. The production is old school, too (so is the album artwork), so if I had never discovered this band and somebody gave me a copy of 'Capricorn' and told me that it was by a very underground 70s heavy rock band, I'd probably buy it. But anyway, 'Capricorn' offers us some very old school, untainted doom metal. Just because a band as great as Black Sabbath basically invented this type of music doesn't mean that others can't play it regardless of how similar it sounds. And if this is what some of these "Sabbath clones" sound like, then I certainly hope that they continue to be just that and give us more good music. Now, with that out of the way, how's the content on Orchid's debut full-length 'Capricorn'? In my opinion, it's very good. And with a little researching done, I also found out that the band started out as a Black Sabbath tribute band playing covers of old school Sabbath tunes. I can confirm that they obviously play the Sabbath-sound, but seriously, that shouldn't come as a surprise considering the band is named after a little instrumental track on Black Sabbath's masterpiece 'Master of Reality'. Countless of bands have drawn elements from the four Brummies to create their own music, and some even have ripped them off totally! One of the bands accused of this is the fairly new American doom metal act Orchid. Orchid is sublime, pathos-laden and exuberant, yet it never crosses the line, and successfully avoids being pretentious or concealing.Black Sabbath's influence on the heavy rock music scene is without a doubt gargantuan. "subtly aligned arrangements evoke tangible emotions and enduring sonic images. It’s kinda nice and I am really looking forward to dozing off to it in the suntrap at the back of my house." - Norman Records It relaxes after a long walk up a big hill then sits contentedly in the shadow of a big old rock. It’s music that sounds tired but happily so.
Synths drone heavily, then inertly, then listlessly. You may even glimpse a faint sparkle of light glinting off a distant burbling brook (or beck). "Picture the lushest of green mixes of pasture and foliage as you try to find the merest spot of shade where you can slurp your half-melted ‘99’ and that’s the essence of this cd. In a field crowded with producers, Deschamps stands out as an exceptionally gifted ambient practitioner, and certainly a recording of the high calibre of Orchid does nothing but enhance that reputation." - Textura "Without being pretentious or overwrought, these incredibly nuanced productions somehow manage to be both majestic and understated. This one might be his most beautiful yet." - Stationary Travels "Orchid adds seven spellbinding new pieces to the anthéne catalog, each a study in ambient guitar alchemy, beautiful sound shapes, and discreet use of textural elements which all coalesce to sustain a deeply introspective and nostalgic mood.
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