{"id":17300,"date":"2017-10-25T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17300"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:49:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:49:23","slug":"content-needed-album-review-seeds-of-the-sun-the-blackbird-and-the-dying-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17300","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Seeds of Mary &#8211; The Blackbird and the Dying Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Seeds of Mary &#8211; The Blackbird and the Dying Sun<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Release Date:<\/strong> October 20, 2017<br \/>\n<strong>Label<\/strong>: Klonosphere Records<\/p>\n<p>Recently I got a press release telling me about a band from <span class=\"Description PromoDetailsItem\">Bordeaux, France<\/span> called Seeds of the Sun.\u00a0 They&#8217;re a young, up and coming band who are about to release their 2nd album.\u00a0 According to their press release, Seeds of the Sun are &#8220;<span class=\"Description PromoDetailsItem\">further refining their sound giving more and more personality to their music which is a bit darker and yet more melodic, more mature and powerful than ever before.<\/span>&#8221;\u00a0 Further being described as having &#8220;<span class=\"Description PromoDetailsItem\">dark atmospheres, heavy riffs and predominant vocal harmonies<\/span>&#8220;, I had to give them listen.\u00a0 I was intrigued.<\/p>\n<p>I hit play and the first song, &#8220;I Am Not Afraid&#8221;, and right off the bat I had a really intense thought.\u00a0 When I was a younger, fledgling metalhead, I never thought I would see the day where I would be old enough to see trends in music come around full circle and then again.\u00a0 It&#8217;s crazy, I tell you.\u00a0 Anyways, they didn&#8217;t even get 5 words into the verse and right away I could summarize this band very simply.\u00a0 They are Alice In Chains to a &#8220;T&#8221; only with songs that aren&#8217;t as good.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UKjrPa8wNl8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now don&#8217;t get me wrong.\u00a0 I actually found myself somewhat enjoying this album as it wasn&#8217;t just a full on blatant rip off of Alice In Chains.\u00a0 It was like 95% Alice In Chains and 5% Nine Inch Nails.\u00a0 Part of me thinks, &#8220;Wow, it&#8217;s pretty cool that a bunch of kids from France were inspired enough by Alice In Chains to pretty much mold their entire sound around the band while adding just a touch of industrial flair ala Nine Inch Nails to it.\u00a0 The only problem is that at this point, it&#8217;s been done before and as a matter of fact is still being done.\u00a0 Alice In Chains is still an active band and trust me, they do Alice in Chains better than anyone because, well, they&#8217;re Alice In Chains.<\/p>\n<p>I would have been really curious to hear these songs without such a heavy handed Alice In Chains sound because it sounds to me that Seeds of Mary have the ability to write and craft a song pretty well.\u00a0 Hell, compared to most of the modern crap that is out there schlepping it around calling itself &#8220;metal&#8221;, this is definitely in the &#8220;does not suck&#8221; bin but at the same time, if I want to listen to Alice in Chains, I&#8217;ll listen to Alice in Chains.\u00a0 Sorry guys but I&#8217;ve pretty much already forgotten what any of your songs even were other than songs that sounded like Alice in Chains.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not really the best impression to make but hey, I&#8217;m an old cranky fuck.\u00a0 Maybe the kids will disagree and you&#8217;ll be selling out clubs in the US next year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeds of Mary &#8211; The Blackbird and the Dying Sun Release Date: October 20, 2017 Label: Klonosphere Records Recently I got a press release telling me about a band from Bordeaux, France called Seeds of the Sun.\u00a0 They&#8217;re a young, up and coming band who are about to release their 2nd album.\u00a0 According to their press release, Seeds of the Sun are &#8220;further refining their sound giving more and more personality to their music which is a bit darker and [&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":[1867],"class_list":["post-17300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-seeds-of-the-sun"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17300","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=17300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19652,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17300\/revisions\/19652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}