{"id":13413,"date":"2014-08-06T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=13413"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:51:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:51:25","slug":"album-review-saturn-ascending-live-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=13413","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Saturn \u2013 Ascending (Live in Space)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-13414\" src=\"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Saturn-Album-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"Saturn Album\" width=\"197\" height=\"200\" \/>Saturn \u2013 Ascending (Live in Space)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Release Date:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Rise Above Records<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joining the ever growing roster of Bands the Brainfart loves is Saturn. Yet again, a good friend of mine reaches out to me and says, \u201cI have a band you\u2019re going to love.\u201d We all know how this could end. I\u2019ll either love it or I\u2019ll fucking be like, \u201cWhat the fuck were you thinking?\u201d As I put on Saturn\u2019s latest release Ascending (Live in Space) and the first track \u201cSo, You Have Chosen Death\u201d kicked in, I thought two things: These guys must be Swedish. This fucking rules my goddamn face.<\/p>\n<p>Saturn is another band to join the Swedish Invasion unleashing a riff factory that churns out nothing but solid, psychedelic, blues (and booze) infused heavy metal. Where their Swedish compadres such as Blues Pills and Graveyard tend to dip more into the psychedelic blues, Saturn delivers some righteous NWOBHM style heavy metal much like UFO, Tygers of Pan Tang, and Diamondhead on songs like \u201cRoktorri\u201d, \u201cLeadersheep\u201d, and \u201cPeasant.\u201d What I really love is the fact that Saturn can break things up a bit and keep things interesting on songs like \u201cOver the Influence\u201d and \u201cTower of Terror\u201d by infusing just a touch of the blues to stretch their influences just a bit out of the box. The album closes with \u201cMoonstone\u201d which sounds kind of like something Led Zeppelin would\u2019ve recorded after a very long night of drinking and dosing some blotter sheets. It\u2019s a really cool song that is oddly off key but the beauty and realness of it really pulled me in and had me wanting to hear it again.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/160103253&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center>Saturn has taken my favorite kind of music and truly created something uniquely beautiful. A true diamond in the rough, Saturn is imperfectly rough around the edges but much like an unearthed gem the beauty lies below the surface. The music and performances on Ascending are truly touching and they are so authentic and real that at times I felt like they were in the room with me just running through their songs. This was a fantastic listening experience and at only eight songs long proved that without a doubt less is more. A truly great album is one that leaves you wanting more and doesn&#8217;t overstay it&#8217;s welcome.  Saturn had me wanting more so much that it had me going in for a repeat listen.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturn \u2013 Ascending (Live in Space) Release Date: Rise Above Records Joining the ever growing roster of Bands the Brainfart loves is Saturn. Yet again, a good friend of mine reaches out to me and says, \u201cI have a band you\u2019re going to love.\u201d We all know how this could end. I\u2019ll either love it or I\u2019ll fucking be like, \u201cWhat the fuck were you thinking?\u201d As I put on Saturn\u2019s latest release Ascending (Live in Space) and the first [&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":[1164,1188],"class_list":["post-13413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-rise-above-records","tag-saturn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413","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=13413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19756,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413\/revisions\/19756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}