BYGONE – Bygone – LP – Black Vinyl [DEC 12]

LP – Black Vinyl

Boston-based heavy metal act Bygones self-titled debut album lands on December 12th via Svart Records, ready to soundtrack your cosmic explorations of an imagined past. You could call it hard rock or heavy metal, but on this LP its probably closest to Mtal Hurlant. This is hardly the first slab of molten black and silver forged by the members of the band, who have previously traveled the Iommic byways of configurations like Magic Circle, Blazon Rite, Concilium, Witchtrial, and Missionary Work. Here, they join together to forge new routes through the whirlpool where matter vanishes.

The albums lead single, Take Me Home, builds a galloping call-and-response between dual guitar leads and nimble keyboard lines, while its lost-in-space lyrics yearn for a more pastoral and earthbound existence. An outsider answer to Uriah Heeps John Lawton period or maybe a Taarna-less variation on the Bouchard brothers The Pact. Through the album, the group journeys out-of-body with cuts like Lightspeed Nights, Into the Gleam, and Shadow Rising drifting through degenerate stars and iron suns. Hear throughout taut Pete Way-inspired underpinnings, keyboard flourishes reminiscent of Don Aireys late 70s work, and vocals that recall the emotion and grit of Buffalos Dave Tice.

Bygone is an infinite cosmos in a 12″ jacketa heavy metal that feels not so much of the historical past as it does the never-quite-was.

Tracklist:

A1 Lightspeed Nights
A2 Shadow Rising
A3 Take Me Home

B1 Into the Gleam
B2 The Last Horses of Avalon
B3 City Living
B4 Fire In You Fire In Me