{"id":1126,"date":"2017-10-05T10:50:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T10:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-36-crazyfists-lanterns\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T21:20:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T21:20:35","slug":"review-36-crazyfists-lanterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-36-crazyfists-lanterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: 36 Crazyfists – Lanterns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alaskan heavyweights 36 Crazyfists<\/b> are back with their eighth studio album of cathartic metal. ‘Lanterns’<\/i> will no doubt build on their ever-growing popularity as they nail a bunch of hooks, regularly drift into heartfelt longing and basically perfect the art of the four-minute metal tune.<\/p>\n

‘Death Eater’<\/i> provides a furiously frantic start, with a bitingly heavy number that ebbs and flows between full-on attack and slower brooding sections. However, it sets a kind of template for the heavier tracks, providing a formula they explore time and again. It’s no bad thing, as they know how to nail a hook and can certainly rock, it’s just that eight of the twelve tracks weigh in at around the same length of four minutes. With each including a mid-section interlude at roughly the same point.<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, there is plenty to like about ‘Lanterns’<\/i>; the pulsating groove of ‘Wars to Walk Away From’<\/i>, the emotive stadium rock of ‘Sea and Smoke’<\/i> and brooding epic ‘Old Gold’<\/i> being particularly high quality. In fact, everything is well delivered from the bass riff of ‘Damaged Under Sun’<\/i> and the killer hook of ‘Better to Burn’<\/i> through to the blistering ‘Below the Graves’<\/i> and the “rain on me”<\/i> vibe of ‘Bandage for Promise’<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The only downside is that one or two tracks such as ‘Sleepsick’<\/i> and ‘Laying Hands’<\/i> stick faithfully to their formula and are on the unspectacular side.<\/p>\n

Even so, formulaic songwriting aside, ‘Lanterns’<\/i> provides more than enough interesting moments to be worth repeated listens and the overall quality is seriously high; the Alaskan quartet having obviously honed their art to perfection.<\/p>\n

3.5\/5<\/p>\n

‘Lanterns’<\/i> by 36 Crazyfists<\/b> is out now on Spinefarm Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n

36 Crazyfists<\/b> links:Website<\/a>|Facebook<\/a>| Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Edward Layland (@EdwardLayland<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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