Wino & Conny Ochs - Heavy Kingdom
When you see the name “Wino” on anything, it generally means two things: it’s Doom and it’s heavy as shit. That was why I was surprised to hear this album. Wino’s partnership with Conny Ochs has produced an album that is essentially American Folk or acoustic Country music. It’s all acoustic guitars and clean vocals - which doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s bad. It doesn’t completely suck, but it’s not Metal by any stretch of the imagination. It’s like listening to an album full of acoustic interludes that should have gone in between heavy-as-all-fucking-hell Doom songs. That being said, what this album was seriously lacking was the heavy-as-all-fucking-hell Doom songs. I kept waiting for things to get heavy and punishing. Sadly, it never happened. This is a two-man acoustical jam that’s one cowboy hat away from being a Billy Ray Cyrus album. The worst part about listening to this is that you unconsciously want a Doom song to break out at some point, and not getting one just gets frustrating. If you have a collection of real Doom tracks that feature Wino (St. Vitus, Spirit Caravan, The Obsessed, etc.), you can intersperse these songs between them on a playlist and things work out. Without the Doom tracks, this just doesn’t do anything for me. It’s unadventurous, bland and worst of all, this isn’t even remotely heavy. My recommendation is that you pass on this one and wait for a true Doom project (or, better yet, a new St. Vitus album) instead.
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