{"id":9944,"date":"2012-07-27T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=9944"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:52:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:52:42","slug":"album-review-the-devils-blood-the-thousandfold-epicentre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=9944","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Devil&#8217;s Blood &#8211; The Thousandfold Epicentre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?attachment_id=9945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9945\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9945\" title=\"TheDevilsBlood_TheThousandfoldEpicentre\" src=\"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheDevilsBlood_TheThousandfoldEpicentre-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The Devil\u2019s Blood \u2013 The Thousandfold Epicentre<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Release Date<\/strong>: January 17th 2012<br \/>\n<strong>Highlights<\/strong>: On the Wings of Gloria, Die the Death, Within the Charnel House of Love, Cruel Lover, The Thousandfold Epicentre, Fire Burning, Everlasting Saturnalia, Feverdance<\/p>\n<p>When my friend Liz emailed me a few months back telling me to check out a band called The Devil\u2019s Blood, the first thing I did was roll my eyes and say to myself, \u201cUm, no.\u201d Why in the world would I listen to a band called The Devil\u2019s Blood? Well, after pondering over this for a day or two I finally decided to take my own advice and not judge a book by its cover. I picked up a copy of the band\u2019s 4th and latest album <em>The Thousandfold Epicentre<\/em> and what I heard was something that I never imagined I would hear from a band with a name like The Devil\u2019s Blood.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As the opening instrumental \u201cUnending Singularity\u201d played, I immediately was drawn in by the warm, dark, and vintage sound of the recording. I loved what I was hearing but I was bracing myself for the typical slap upside the head of death metal music and cookie monster vocals. Instead, with \u201cOn the Wings of Gloria\u201d what I got was a classic 70\u2019s style hard rock\/metal sound with some of the most amazing and soulful female singing I\u2019ve yet to hear in a metal band. I was so taken back by this that I was literally sitting there shaking my head in disbelief. The fact that I was going to write this band off based solely on their name just killed me.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nHGlKJj0XEo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Lead by guitarist\/songwriter Selim Lemouchi and his lead vocalist sister Farida Lemouchi, The Devil\u2019s Blood calls upon their 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s hard rock influences ranging from Iron Butterfly and Black Sabbath to Blue Oyster Cult and Pentagram to create psychedelic, heavy metal experience that takes you on a music journey of the senses. <em>The Thousandfold Epicentre<\/em> is heavy, melodic, soulful, and even sensual collection of songs like \u201cShe\u201d, \u201cCruel Lover\u201d, and my personal favorite \u201cDie the Death.\u201d The title track, \u201cThe Thousandfold Epicentre\u201d is an epic 9 minute with a rhythmic army of guitars, a driving groove, tempo changes, and haunting layered vocals that literally sent a chill up my spine the first time I heard it. This ended up being a song that got many repeat listens as it truly is a unique and interesting piece to take in. The album closes with yet another epic piece of metal bliss titled \u201cFeverdance\u201d which clocks in at a whopping 15 minutes. It was a perfect way to close out a spectacular album which left me wanting more.<\/p>\n<p>The Devil\u2019s Blood is not your typical heavy metal band. This is a band that is doing some of the most exciting and fulfilling music that I have heard in quite a while. In a world surrounded by death metal, thrash metal, and any other kind of metal you can imagine, The Devil\u2019s Blood creates music that cuts through it all and presents itself to the listener as something that can sweep you away from it all. <em>The Thousandfold Epicentre<\/em> is a musical journey of the senses and it\u2019s a sonic masterpiece that will no doubt find a welcome home in your collection. Just remember the lesson that I learned. Don\u2019t judge a book by its cover because after all, it\u2019s what lies within that truly matters at the end of it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Devil\u2019s Blood \u2013 The Thousandfold Epicentre Release Date: January 17th 2012 Highlights: On the Wings of Gloria, Die the Death, Within the Charnel House of Love, Cruel Lover, The Thousandfold Epicentre, Fire Burning, Everlasting Saturnalia, Feverdance When my friend Liz emailed me a few months back telling me to check out a band called The Devil\u2019s Blood, the first thing I did was roll my eyes and say to myself, \u201cUm, no.\u201d Why in the world would I listen [&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":[777],"class_list":["post-9944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-the-devils-blood"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944","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=9944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19820,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944\/revisions\/19820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}