The Time of No Time Evermore

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The Time of No Time Evermore
Studio album by The Devil's Blood

Publication
(s)

2009

Label (s) Ván Records

Genre (s)

Hard rock , psychedelic rock

Title (number)

11

running time

54:33

chronology
I'll Be Your Ghost
(single, 2009) 		The Time of No Time Evermore Fire Burning
(EP, 2011)

The Time of No Time Evermore is the debut album by the Dutch band The Devil's Blood .

Emergence

The material was created with interruptions from the beginning of 2007, with The Anti-Kosmik Magick being the first and the Rake Your Nails Across the Firmament written at the end of 2008 being the last. The first single was I'll Be Your Ghost , which, according to Selim “SL” Lemouchi, was “more or less our label's decision”. The band agreed with the decision "on the condition that the single is released in a quality package and with a strong B-side ".

Track list

  1. The Time of No Time - 2:17 (text and music: SL)
  2. Evermore - 3:09 (text and music: SL)
  3. I'll Be Your Ghost - 4:12 (text and music: SL)
  4. The Yonder Beckons - 6:04 (Text: Erik Danielsson; Music: SL)
  5. House of Ten Thousand Voices - 5:10 (Text and Music: SL)
  6. Christ or Cocaine - 5:12 (text and music: SL)
  7. Queen of My Burning Heart - 3:55 (Text and music: SL)
  8. Angel's Prayer - 4:31 (Text and Music: SL)
  9. Feeding the Fire With Tears and Blood - 5:10 (text and music: SL)
  10. Rake Your Nails Across the Firmament - 3:43 (text and music: SL)
  11. The Anti-Kosmik Magick - 11:10 (text and music: SL)

Music style and lyrics

According to Robert Müller from Metal Hammer, the band's music seems "irritatingly old-fashioned compared to today's extreme sounds, combining seventies hard rock with psychedelic elements". Frank Thießies from the same magazine compared it to The 13th Floor Elevators and Blue Öyster Cult . Compared to the EP Come, Reap , the material is "a bit more compact and straightforward". Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic describes the music as a "visionary mixture of hard rock, psych rock , acid rock , and even art rock , dripping with obsessively detailed satanic ritual ". He emphasizes Farida Lemouchi's vibrato singing and points out the stylistic range.

The album begins with The Time of No Time , a calm introduction to the "straightforward, compact rock song" Evermore . Also I'll Be Your Ghost is "more compact and catchy, with driving Vibe". According to Diana Glöckner from Metal Hammer, the “profound, blatant text” is “in contrast to the almost happy melody”. Rivadavia assigns the song to Garage Rock , it connects the Nuggets generation with Pentagram . The Yonder Beckons with its “scary melancholy” according to Rivadavia begins “with heavy guitars and gives goose bumps with a dark undertone. After a quiet interlude, the full dose of psychedelic seventies vibes follows. ” House of Ten Thousand Voices “ [w] irks a bit more bulky when first heard than the other tracks. Quite hard for The Devil's Blood standards - even the spherical parts are underlaid with a driving rhythm. ”In this song, numerous voices were superimposed, which, according to Andreas Himmelstein from Rock Hard, is reminiscent of a horror film . Selim Lemouchi did not want to explain the meaning of these voices “because perception is an individual matter”. Christ or Cocaine reminds Rivadavia of Fleetwood Macs Tusk and, according to Glöckner, “oscillates between the feeling of typical seventies drug rock and more toughness”. In Christian or Cocaine it comes "to death and misery - and therefore, to find his way." Queen of My Burning Heart is described by Glöckner as “easy going, fast, driving and straight forward” and reminds her of “a Jefferson Airplane variant at speed and in a bad mood”. Angel's Prayer begins "with a guitar that immediately burns into long-term memory". Farida Lemouchi's singing "sends goose bumps down your spine". Feeding the Fire With Tears and Blood "again seems a bit darker and darker, the heavy guitars partly almost blues-rocky ". Rake Your Nails Across the Firmament is a "[t] rubbing rock song that indulges in a seventies rock feeling and creates such a drug-laden atmosphere that you can literally see the fragrant billows of smoke billowing out of the speakers". The Anti-Kosmik Magick is, according to Glöckner, a “wonderful atmospheric rock song with a melancholy undertone and an extensive instrumental passage”. Rivadavia called the song epic, it seemed to invite Thin Lizzy and Judas Priest to the funeral.

reception

According to Himmelstein, The Time of No Time Evermore was “the most anticipated debut album by a band in recent years”, and the band “despite all prophecies of doom [...] presented a masterpiece and actually managed to live up to the high expectations”. According to Götz Kühnemund , "it will take months, maybe years, for large parts of the scene to recognize the importance of this album and this band". They will "then be seen realistically: as an original, classic rock band whose ideological base is certainly not for everyone, but which gives the (highly demanding) music a spiritual, magical depth that one cannot escape". You have to "love masterpieces like 'The Anti-Kosmik Magick', 'Christ Or Cocaine', 'House Of 10,000 Voices', 'Evermore' or 'The Yonder Beckons' [...] - or reject them with full conviction". He himself loves this band “like no other in recent years”, although he is “absolutely not susceptible” to their orthodox Satanism. The Rock Hard put the release in the list of "250 Black Metal Albums That You Should Know".

According to Thießies, the band with their rock references "is above any criticism, especially since they have mastered their retro craft from the riff to the picking pike to the beguiling siren singing of Ms. F." According to Glöckner, the band proved with their debut that they had the substance "to justify the enthusiasm that was quickly sparked over the long term". The tracks, which are a bit more compact and straightforward compared to the EP, “never missed the psychedelic vibe. An excellent album without failures. ”In the spring of 2017, the German magazine Visions included the album in its list of the 66 + 6 best metal albums of the third millennium.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andreas Himmelstein: The Devil's Blood . Rivers of chaos. In: Rock Hard . No. 269 , October 2009, p. 30 .
  2. ↑ a b c Andreas Himmelstein: The Devil's Blood . Rivers of chaos. In: Rock Hard . No. 269 , October 2009, p. 31 .
  3. ^ Robert Müller: The Devil's Blood . Diaboli advocate. In: Metal Hammer . Axel Springer Mediahouse GmbH, October 2009, ISSN  1614-2292 , p. 62 .
  4. ↑ a b Frank Thießies: The Devil's Blood . The Time Of No Time Evermore. In: Metal Hammer . Axel Springer Mediahouse GmbH, October 2009, ISSN  1614-2292 , p. 106 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Diana Glöckner: The Devil's Blood . More than rock. In: Metal Hammer . Axel Springer Mediahouse GmbH, September 2009, ISSN  1614-2292 , p. 26 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e Eduardo Rivadavia: The Time of No Time Evermore - The Devil's Blood. AllMusic, accessed March 24, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Götz Kühnemund : The Devil's Blood . The Time Of No Time Evermore. In: Rock Hard . No. 269 , October 2009, p. 119 ( rockhard.de [accessed on March 18, 2014]).
  8. ↑ 250 Black Metal Albums That You Should Know . In: Rock Hard . No. 269 , October 2009, p. 75 .
  9. ↑ oA: The 66 + 6 best metal albums of the millennium . In: Visions, issue 289, pages 52–66