{"id":12040,"date":"2013-10-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=12040"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:51:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:51:51","slug":"album-review-noctum-final-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=12040","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Noctum \u2013 Final Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"http:\/\/pad.indiemerch.com\/i\/d\/f\/dff237965e\/340.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/pad.indiemerch.com\/i\/d\/f\/dff237965e\/340.jpg\" width=\"272\" height=\"272\" \/>Noctum \u2013 Final Sacrifice<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Release Date:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Highlights<\/strong>: The whole album<\/p>\n<p>Add Noctum to that ever growing list of bands that people say, \u201cHey man, you\u2019re gonna love this band.\u201d Well, as we\u2019ve learned, this is always a hit or miss but with Noctum, this shit was a hit right out of the park. The droning, Iron Maidenesque riff of \u201cConflagration\u201d emerged from my speakers and as I nodded my head with approve, the song took a whole 360 turn into murky Black Sabbath waters sounding like something I could\u2019ve heard on \u201cMaster of Reality.\u201d My nod turned into a big \u201cfuck yeah\u201d (which I did say out loud) as I pounded my fist on my desk. As the next song, \u201cLiberty in Death\u201d kicked in, I felt as if flood gates opened and I was hit with this pounding wave of sheer, 70\u2019s inspired, psychedelic doom metal awesomeness.<\/p>\n<p>It should be no surprise that Noctum hails from Sweden since it seems that all of my latest favorite bands such as Graveyard, Witchcraft, and Blues Pills are from there. What I love so much about Noctum is that they are bringing something a bit different to the table. Whereas Graveyard and Witchcraft teetered on the more Sabbath side of the spectrum and Blues Pills on the more rootsy 60\u2019s style of things, Noctum embodies a lot of that classic NWOBHM spirit and when I mean, NWOBHM I mean more like that early Judas Priest mixed with DiAnno era Iron Maiden with touch of Angel Witch and Diamond Head in there for flavor. Hell, on &#8220;Temple of the Living Dead&#8221; these guys were channeling some Merciful Fate\/King Diamond which was melting my damn face clean off.\u00a0 These guys are all over the map without sounding scattered. Matter of fact, It blows my fucking mind that Noctoum has found a way to take so many diverse styles of classic metal and combine them to a very cohesive sound that sounds unique yet very old school. It\u2019s hard to believe these guys haven\u2019t been out more than five years.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v7xuTVF98Co\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center>When one listens to this kind of 70\u2019s inspired, psychedelic hard rock they might think that it sounds quite simplistic. In all honesty, this kind of music is really easy to fuck up. If not done right, you can come off sounding like a bad clone (Orchid) but if it\u2019s done right, you end up with an a sound and an album like the one Noctum\u2019s put out. It\u2019s really impossible for me to really pick any particular songs to start showcasing because in all honesty, each song is as stellar as the last one. Noctum is a band that I will be keeping a close eye on as I feel like with Final Sacrifice they really delivered a grade A chunk of rifftastic, classic metal. As a whole, Final Sacrifice is probably one of the coolest fucking records I\u2019ve laid my ears on all year. This one literally came out of nowhere and instantly became what I think will be one of the best releases of 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noctum \u2013 Final Sacrifice Release Date: Highlights: The whole album Add Noctum to that ever growing list of bands that people say, \u201cHey man, you\u2019re gonna love this band.\u201d Well, as we\u2019ve learned, this is always a hit or miss but with Noctum, this shit was a hit right out of the park. The droning, Iron Maidenesque riff of \u201cConflagration\u201d emerged from my speakers and as I nodded my head with approve, the song took a whole 360 turn into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[1055],"class_list":["post-12040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-noctum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19780,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions\/19780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}