Stonebringer – Helen Marie Joyce

A creative journey through adversities and obstacles personified through the elements of the earth, and sinister internal forces the imminent wrath of which is unleashed to test your will to get to the end. To claim your Emerald. The main theme is obtaining self-completion, making it by experiencing self-awareness and spiritual elevation by facing the good, the ugly and the evil that is inside us, the bag of Aeolus that is buried in each of our souls. With an album that is intelligently full of melodic intricacies, controversies, paganistic atmosphere and metal weight, it also has vision and pours insight into the sweaty strenuous processes of creation, having to the go through its 40 waves with you being at Those Winds mercy.

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This would be the second time I was going to see the Orange Goblin psych-up the AN Club stage; I remember their last appearance at that same small venue just over a year ago and it was literally ground-breaking, so this is what I expected to experience again. They are monoliths in Stoner Metal and have been active since 1995, and one of the first bands that introduced me to the Stoner scene. In my book, these Brits combine as much Doom as Stoner metal requires. The opening act was Stonebringer, a band whose journey I have followed over the past year and it is always a pleasure to see them play. Word on the street was that Orange Goblin did not want to share the crummy backstage restroom with the local opening act.

Continue reading ORANGE GOBLIN, Stonebringer live @ AN Club, 14/11/13, Athens, Greece