Static Tensions

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Static Tensions
Studio album by Kylesa

Publication
(s)

March 17, 2009

Label (s) Prosthetic Records

Genre (s)

Sludge

Title (number)

10

running time

40:42

occupation
  • Phillip Cope: vocals, guitar
  • Javier Villegas: Bass
  • Carl McGinley: drums, piano

production

Phillip Cope

Studio (s)

Jam Room

chronology
Time Will Fuse Its Worth
(2006) 		Static Tensions Spiral Shadow
(2010)

Static Tensions is the fourth studio album by the American sludge band Kylesa . It was released on March 17th, 2009 on Prosthetic Records .

Emergence

Upon completion of a Europe - tour with Baroness the singer and guitarist Phillip Cope and Laura Pleasant started together with the drummer Carl McGinley in February 2008 with the songwriting for Static Tensions . The second drummer Eric Hernandez, who was living in Miami at the time , took part in a few jam sessions while writing the song and contributed some ideas. After the work was completed in June 2008, bassist friend Javier Villegas agreed to record the bass tracks for Static Tensions . Villegas has already worked as a guest musician in live performances. The recording began in July and lasted through October, and took place largely in the Jam Room in Columbia , South Carolina . For the first time, the band booked a secondary studio in addition to the main studio, in which Laura Pleasant recorded most of their guitar tracks together with sound engineer Jay Matheson. The album title means "static tensions " in German , a term from mechanics that describes the point at which material breaks. In a figurative sense, it should stand for the fact that "we ... live in a time of tension and pressure, personally, nationally, socially and economically" and that the feelings that arise will break out at some point. The artwork is by Baroness singer John Baizley.

Track list

  1. Scapegoat - 3:25
  2. Insomnia for Months - 2:04
  3. Said and Done - 4:09
  4. Unknown Awareness - 4:22
  5. Running Red - 5:46
  6. Nature's Predators - 4:10
  7. Almost Lost - 3:03
  8. Only One - 5:20
  9. Perception - 3:43
  10. To Walk Alone - 4:22

Reviews

Patrick Schmidt from Rock Hard says that Kylesa “almost perfected her extraordinary style” with the album, which he describes as a mixture of “dirty, Sabbath- soaked riffs ... with the incredibly agile, very dominant rhythm section”. Schmidt names influences from the psychedelic and krautrock of the 1970s and compares the music with mastodon . Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic calls the album unpredictable and says that the album is worth listening to several times in order to discover all of its "exciting qualities". Markus Sievers from the online magazine powermetal.de praises the sound of the album as "organically powerful" and "completely unaffected" and sees Static Tensions stylistically as the intersection of Doom Metal , Psychedelic, Classic Rock and Punk . The German magazine Visions had the album in their list of the 66 + 6 best metal albums of the third millennium in spring 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jens Kasper: Kylesa - Interview. Elektrolurch.com, accessed December 23, 2010 .
  2. ^ Patrick Schmidt: Kylesa - Static Tensions . In: Rock Hard . No. 263 , April 2009.
  3. ^ Markus Sievers: Kylesa / Static Tensions. powermetal.de, April 10, 2009, accessed on December 23, 2010 .
  4. ↑ oA: The 66 + 6 best metal albums of the millennium . In: Visions, issue 289, pages 52–66

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