The Great Sabatini – Dog Years

Releasedate: 02-06-2014; Label: Solar Flare
By: Sabine van Gameren

The Great Sabatini are some Sludge Metallers from Canada formed around 2007. Two years and two EP’s later the band came with a debut full length album and this year they are up for album number three. “Dog Years” is out now.

One evil red muppet is staring at you when you get the album in your hands. Does not really give much of an image of what to expect, but it’s interesting in some way. Musically the album is mostly slow paced, dragging through long and heavy songs that are in fact, never as long as they seem to be. A kind of teasing way, to keep you there, but if you are not fully into that Sludge thing, there is not a chance this album will built the bridge for you. It’s raw and deep and seem to have a lot of compressed energy into it, that energy that you wait to release, which only happens very occasionally. Perhaps that’s the point. When the album is over, do you really feel like all has come out? Not really to be honest. It feels like the album needed just a few more songs, or maybe some more wild rage engaged into this.

“Dog Years” has great moments, its songs are in good line with each other and the whole comes out as one thing in the end. It tends to leave you a bit unsatisfied perhaps because of that climax that never explodes completely.

Tracklist: 01. The Royal We 02. Guest Of Honor 03. Nursing Home 04. Periwinkle War Hammer 05. Reach 06. Akela 07. Munera 08. Pitchfork Pete 09. Ditch Diggers Unlimited 10. Life During Wartime

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