{"id":1919,"date":"2017-06-20T13:12:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T13:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-dead-heavens-whatever-witch-you-are\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T22:15:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T22:15:51","slug":"review-dead-heavens-whatever-witch-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-dead-heavens-whatever-witch-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Dead Heavens &#8211;\u00a0 Whatever Witch You Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/c22f2838ff9411bfdf7ed207faece93b\/tumblr_orrffuubTP1r8no6so1_r1_1280.jpg\" width=\"250em\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>You just can\u2019t keep a good man down, and here, having just finished the first run with his Vanishing Life hard-rock project, Walter Schreifels is back with his desert rock\/blues supergroup <b>Dead Heavens<\/b>, and their debut album <i>\u2018Whatever Witch You Are\u2019.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In truth, this feels like a much easier bed fellow compared to Vanishing Life, relying on pulsating rhythms that come easily to the hardcore veteran. The result is a hip-shaking, bourbon-soaked record that owes as much to 60s psych as it does to 90s stoner rock. <\/p>\n<p>More than ably backed by a stellar supporting cast of musicians, including Paul Kostabi (Youth Gone Mad, White Zombie) and Drew Thomas (Youth of Today, Into Another), <i>\u2018Whatever Witch You Are\u2019<\/i> also sounds fantastic. The grooves of <i>\u2018The Moon Will Listen (But Not The Sun)\u2019<\/i> are as deep as Death Valley, making for a suitably epic head-shaking freakout. <\/p>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, <i>\u2018Adderall Highway\u2019<\/i> \u2013 first released as a single in 2015 \u2013 is a full-throttle charge down Route 66, flames burning on the Pontiac Firebird. It&rsquo;s classic life-on-the road stuff, Schreifels whispering he\u2019s <i>\u201con your side\u201d<\/i> like a bad influence. <\/p>\n<p>Naturally, for such a genre-driven album, it does get a tad wearisome, especially on the near-eight minute trial of <i>\u2018Gold Tooth\u2019<\/i>, which takes the sun-blasted desert rock and toasts it to a cinder. It\u2019s only saved from hackneyed oblivion by a killer vocal performance by Schreifels and some sharp song writing in the latter third. <\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, <i>\u2018Whatever Witch You are\u2019<\/i> is a clever classic rock album that serves as one of Schreifels finest away from the safe hardcore\/post-hardcore stomping grounds. It sounds phenomenal \u2013 thanks in no small part to the killer arrangements and top-notch musicianship \u2013 but has enough soul to warrant repeated listens. <\/p>\n<p>3.5\/5<\/p>\n<p><i>&lsquo;Whatever Witch You Are&rsquo;<\/i> by <b>Dead Heavens<\/b> is out now on <b>Dine Alone Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadheavens.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deadheavens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dead_heavens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/deadheavens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Rob Mair (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobNightMair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BobNightMair<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You just can\u2019t keep a good man down, and here, having just finished the first run with his Vanishing Life hard-rock project, Walter Schreifels is back with his desert rock\/blues supergroup Dead Heavens, and their debut album \u2018Whatever Witch You Are\u2019. In truth, this feels like a much easier bed fellow compared to Vanishing Life, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":16456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1526,1264,15022,1527],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-dead-heavens","tag-dine-alone-records","tag-rob-mair","tag-whatever-witch-you-are"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Review: Dead Heavens -\u00a0 Whatever Witch You Are - Already Heard Staging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You just can\u2019t keep a good man down, and here, having just finished the first run with his Vanishing Life hard-rock project, Walter Schreifels is back\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Review: Dead Heavens -\u00a0 Whatever Witch You Are - 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