Post by thesoundmonitor on Jan 6, 2004 22:44:22 GMT -5
FRAME
Closer to the Myth than Zero
(Perpetual Burn) PB 888
Sweden is proving the vitality of its music scene by evolving out of its national Kyuss-clone stereotype into something new and stronger, and groups like Sparzanza and Frame are leading the way. Frame has applied the lessons of stoner onto its collective metal background to produce a solid, blues-based Teutonic-sounding metal with a non-desert, bong n' booze driven overlay, and the results are gratifying. And the colorful Predator-inspired cover is a cool way to wrap it all up.
Frame is a group full of talented individuals coalescing into a groovin' whole. Kristian Kallio's guitar riffs are as thick and smooth as a fresh case of Bitburger pills and his leads are far too infrequent. Bassist Fredrik Olsson and drummer Andreas Ragnarsson provide a rhythm section beyond reproach, with some mean 'effin cowbell to boot. Robert Westin writes excellent vocal melodies and belts it out straight from the gut with plenty of
applied echo. Cool. 'Forever Train' starts it all out with a rolling (heh heh) groove with Bobby's vocals up-front and echoing like a ping-pong ball around your brain cavity. 'Daydreamer’ has a brilliant (though too short) guitar solo and some evil aggressive right-handed guitar attack at the end. My personal fave is 'Psychedelica Magnitude,' due to the brilliant combination of aggression and melody, led by Bobby's vox. 'At the End of a Rope' is the doomiest cut, slow n' heavy, and the rumors are that the new Frame material is marching more in that direction, more so than the material found here.
As it is, Frame have mixed in some 80s and 90s feeling and some Black Sabbath as filtered through the guitars of Zakk Wylde and Pepper Keenan. They're principally a
guitar and drum-driven group that are well on the road to developing their own sound, and I'm grooving to it big-time. If you're looking for some constructive criticism, I could do without the train sounds on the first song and the rather militaristic "heys" on the second. But that's just me. Oh yeah, and let’s have MORE guitar solos, OK? Otherwise, this is a damned fine effort and it’s assuming an honored place in my collection.
Kevin McHugh
Artist website: www.frame.se
Label website: n/a
Buy this album: perpetual_burn@spray.se
Closer to the Myth than Zero
(Perpetual Burn) PB 888
Sweden is proving the vitality of its music scene by evolving out of its national Kyuss-clone stereotype into something new and stronger, and groups like Sparzanza and Frame are leading the way. Frame has applied the lessons of stoner onto its collective metal background to produce a solid, blues-based Teutonic-sounding metal with a non-desert, bong n' booze driven overlay, and the results are gratifying. And the colorful Predator-inspired cover is a cool way to wrap it all up.
Frame is a group full of talented individuals coalescing into a groovin' whole. Kristian Kallio's guitar riffs are as thick and smooth as a fresh case of Bitburger pills and his leads are far too infrequent. Bassist Fredrik Olsson and drummer Andreas Ragnarsson provide a rhythm section beyond reproach, with some mean 'effin cowbell to boot. Robert Westin writes excellent vocal melodies and belts it out straight from the gut with plenty of
applied echo. Cool. 'Forever Train' starts it all out with a rolling (heh heh) groove with Bobby's vocals up-front and echoing like a ping-pong ball around your brain cavity. 'Daydreamer’ has a brilliant (though too short) guitar solo and some evil aggressive right-handed guitar attack at the end. My personal fave is 'Psychedelica Magnitude,' due to the brilliant combination of aggression and melody, led by Bobby's vox. 'At the End of a Rope' is the doomiest cut, slow n' heavy, and the rumors are that the new Frame material is marching more in that direction, more so than the material found here.
As it is, Frame have mixed in some 80s and 90s feeling and some Black Sabbath as filtered through the guitars of Zakk Wylde and Pepper Keenan. They're principally a
guitar and drum-driven group that are well on the road to developing their own sound, and I'm grooving to it big-time. If you're looking for some constructive criticism, I could do without the train sounds on the first song and the rather militaristic "heys" on the second. But that's just me. Oh yeah, and let’s have MORE guitar solos, OK? Otherwise, this is a damned fine effort and it’s assuming an honored place in my collection.
Kevin McHugh
Artist website: www.frame.se
Label website: n/a
Buy this album: perpetual_burn@spray.se
