{"id":16972,"date":"2017-03-31T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=16972"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:49:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:49:49","slug":"album-review-saturn-beyond-spectra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=16972","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Saturn &#8211; Beyond Spectra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saturn &#8211; Beyond Spectra<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Release Date<\/strong>: March 31, 2017<br \/>\n<strong>Label<\/strong>: Rise Above Records<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2014, a little band out of Sweden called Saturn blew my mind with a stellar debut album.\u00a0 Their album Ascending: Live in Space was a hefty dose of NWOBHM inspired gems that I felt had placed Saturn in the running pack of NWOTHM bands that were amazingly preserving the sound of traditional metal for a whole new generation.\u00a0 It was one of my favorite albums that year and even now it\u2019s an album that I revisit quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p>When it was announced that the band would be releasing their anticipated follow up, Beyond Spectra, I couldn\u2019t wait to get my mits on it.\u00a0 When I finally got it, I hit the play button with anticipation.\u00a0 \u201cOrbital Command\u201d came on and I could literally feel a look of confusion take over my face.\u00a0 I mean, I just didn\u2019t get it.\u00a0 The first thing that hit me was the discordant vocals of Oscar Pehrson.\u00a0 For some reason, while this kind of voice worked well with the more NWOTHM type material such as \u201cStill Young\u201d and \u201cSilver Tape\u201d, it just doesn\u2019t seem to do well for most of this album and honestly, it seems to be the weakest link.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PMqf5DfEj38?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Musically, Saturn has talent for light years but Beyond Spectra just doesn\u2019t feel like a natural progression for the band.\u00a0 The songs and even the overall performances on the songs feel forced and not very sincere.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost like with the last album they were a metal band and this time around, they\u2019re trying too hard to be Horisont.\u00a0 Don\u2019t me wrong, I like Horisont but I loved Saturn when they were just being themselves.<\/p>\n<p>For all I know, maybe this was a natural progression for them and this is where they wanted to go but as a fan from the outside looking in, it just doesn\u2019t feel real or sincere.\u00a0 I\u2019m all for bands growing and trying new things but Saturn\u2019s dramatic shift into a new direction just left me feeling a bit lost at the crossroads.\u00a0 Hopefully they\u2019ll make their way back to me and pick me but until then, I\u2019ll just hang here and wait, hoping for their return.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturn &#8211; Beyond Spectra Release Date: March 31, 2017 Label: Rise Above Records Back in 2014, a little band out of Sweden called Saturn blew my mind with a stellar debut album.\u00a0 Their album Ascending: Live in Space was a hefty dose of NWOBHM inspired gems that I felt had placed Saturn in the running pack of NWOTHM bands that were amazingly preserving the sound of traditional metal for a whole new generation.\u00a0 It was one of my favorite albums [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[1164,1776,1188],"class_list":["post-16972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-rise-above-records","tag-satur-sweden","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\/16972","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=16972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19669,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16972\/revisions\/19669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}