Release
date: July
26th
2019. Label: Translation
Loss Records.
Format: CD/DD/Vinyl
Take
The Stairs To Hell –
Tracklisting
1.Forest
Dream (intro)
2.It
Cost Me Everything
3.Black
Medicine
4.Low
Man
5.Rats
on Fire
6.Eyes
Rolled Back
7.Rivers
of Old
8.Take
The Stairs To Hell
Members
Randy
Larsen – Bass,Vocals
Bernie
Romanowski – Guitar
Chris
“Fish” Harding – Guitar
Peter
Farris – Vocals
Alex
Garcia-Rivera – Drums)
Review
Take
The Stairs To Hell is the first new album from Sludge Metal
Heavyweights Cable in a decade and it’s most definitely been worth
the wait. As the band have created a highly unorthodox and different
sounding album that you would expect from this legendary band. Cable
have always been known to experiment with their sound and their
previous albums are a testament to that fact.
However,
this album is perhaps one of their strangest and most enjoyable
albums they’ve released to date. A mixture of Doom Metal, Sludge
Metal, Stoner Metal and Hardcore Punk sounds impress from the very
start.
The
songs contained on the album vary in length, with some lasting around
thirty seconds or so. The first opening songs – Forest Dream
(Intro), It Cost Me Everything and Black Medicine – offer a bleak
insight to the heavy sludge grooves that Cable have created for this
album. The vocals are good as ever and have a quite a passionate feel
to them even with the raw sounding production contained on the album.
The
lyrics are equally unforgiving especially on It Cost Me Everything
and Black Medicine. The overall mood of the album becomes gloomier
and that leads to some of the heaviest and harshest riffs contained
on the album. Add strands of Psychedelic Rock/Metal and Cable have
captured some of the most heartfelt sounds of their legendary career.
Take
The Stairs To Hell does allow Cable to play epic sounding moments of
Psychedelic Sludge/Stoner Rock and it’s good to see a different
side to Cable. Black Medicine is perhaps the best song on the album
as it shows you the different sides of Cable and how creative the
band can actually be with their music.
The
rest of the album sees Cable treating the listener to a wide array of
different sounds and ideas with the experimental style of Sludge
Metal the band play on songs such as: Low Man, Eyes Rolled Back,
Rivers Of Old and Come Home (Outro).
Take
The Stairs To Hell is superbly produced and allows the album to be
perhaps the most truthful album released this year with Cable adding
a deep rooted Punk Rock influence and hard-hitting social conscience
to their music.
My
only complaint with the album is it’s too short running under
thirty minutes and I wanted this album to be on slightly longer.
Though, we should celebrate that we finally have a new album from
Cable and this is an album worth celebrating.
Overall,
Take The Stairs To Hell is a genuinely exciting and hard hitting
album that leaves you wanting more. This is one of the best albums
that Cable have released in years.
Words
by Steve Howe
Thanks
to Perfect
World
PR for the promo. Take
The Stairs To Hell
will be available to buy on CD/DD/Vinyl via Translation Loss Records from July
26th
2019.
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