Description
Italian group Bastian, led by Sebastiano Conti, return with their 4th album, the dark and heavy Grimorio. The album was recorded toward the end of 2017 and it has a pure Black Sabbath sound (Ozzy era) with the power and harmonics of modern days. It’s a sound that draws its breath from the oldest and darkest metal roots. Witches, wizards, black woods, voodoo rites, and much more …… all these are contained within the themes and lyrics of the album to produced a devilishly powerful beast.
For this album, Bastian features a new line up with Sebastiano Conti (as always) on guitars, the veteran James Lomenzo on Bass guitar (Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, Black Label Society), the monster Italian Federico Paulovich (Destrage) on drums and the amazing Danish singer Nicklas Sonne (Defecto, Theory).
Grimorio was mixed by the engineer Clint Murphy at the Yellow Shark studios in England and mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound in New York. It is released worldwide via Sliptrick Records on July 31st, 2018.
Grimorio | Released July 31st, 2018 on Sliptrick Records
Track Listing:
01. Pale Figure | 02. Sly Ghost | 03. The Trip | 04. Infinite Love | 05. It’s Just A Lie | 06. Southern Tradition | 07. The Time Has Come | 08. Epiphany’s Voodoo | 09. Black Wood | 10. Fallen Gods
Bastian are:
Sebastiano Conti – Guitar | Nicklas Sonne – Vocals | James Lomenzo – Bass | Federico Paulovich – Drum
Band links: Facebook | Youtube | Soundcloud | On Sliptrick
metalhead.it –
Nessuna canzone sfigura, tutte si incastrano alla perfezione in questo album legato al passato e a modelli noti, è maledettamente vivo e reale, dunque contemporaneo …read more
vianocturna2000 –
Mantendo o assinalável registo de um álbum por ano, Grimorio é o quarto álbum dos italianos Bastian, banda de heavy metal que não deve ser confundida com os seus compatriotas de Roma, praticantes de screamo/post-hardcore que têm o mesmo nome. Os feitiços medievais e os encantamentos mágicos fazem parte deste disco de metal bem assente nas mais obscuras raízes do género, nomeadamente em apontamentos de doom. Em Grimorio, as influências de Ozzy são atualizadas com o poder e as harmonias de uma produção moderna originando um disco com personalidade …read more
metaleyes.iyezine.com –
Album da non perdere assolutamente, come del resto tutte le opere di questo nostro talento nostrano, Grimorio prende in parte le distanze dai precedenti lavori per una più accentuata vena doom, con il groove a prendere il sopravvento sul sound, ma risultando ugualmente un album di classico hard & heavy firmato Bastian …read more
metalwave.it –
Un disco notevole, tra i migliori esempi di doom moderno, ricco di personalità e spessore compositivo …read more
TheDirtyRoom –
No number rating can do Grimorio justice just know you need this in your life. Get it, demand your store carry it and help make this album get to the top of the metal mountain where it so rightly deserves to be …read more
justinhulford –
As this continues it’s a succession of variations on a theme. It has hard rock at its heart but with the threat of something southern, as well as lots of doom elements. The vocal is excellent, clean with a handful of gravel …read more