Static Tensions
Occupation
- Laura Pleasants: vocals, guitar
- Phillip Cope: vocals, guitar
- Javier Villegas: Bass
- Eric Hernandez: Drums
- Carl McGinley: drums, piano
Static Tensions is the fourth studio album by American sludge band Kylesa. It was published on 17 March 2009 at Prosthetic Records.
Formation
After completing a European tour with Baroness the singer and guitarist Phillip Cope and Laura Pleasant began together with drummer Carl McGinley in February 2008 with the songwriting for Static Tensions. The second drummer Eric Hernandez, who lived at the time in Miami, took part in the songwriting part in some jam sessions and contributed some ideas. After completion of the work in June 2008, the befriended bassist Javier Villegas told to merge the bass tracks for Static Tensions. Villegas has worked as a guest musician in live performance. The recordings began in July, lasted until October and found largely in the Jam Room in Columbia, South Carolina, instead. For the first time the band booked in addition to the main one side studio in which Laura Pleasant together with sound engineer Jay Matheson took up a lot of their guitar tracks. The album title means in German " static tension," a term from mechanics, which describes the point breaks in the material. He should be in the figurative sense that " we ... in a time of tension and pressure, personally, nationally, socially and economically [ live ] " and that the resulting feelings erupt sometime. The artwork was done by Baroness singer John Baizley.
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Reviews
Says Patrick Schmidt from Rock Hard that Kylesa " almost perfected their exceptional style " with the album would he "... with the scary agile, very dominant rhythm section filthy, Sabbath -soaked riffs " describes as a mixture of. Schmidt calls influences from the psychedelic and krautrock of the 1970s and compares the music with Mastodon. Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic called the album unpredictable and thinks that it was the album deserves to be heard more than once to discover all of his " exciting qualities ." Markus Sievers from the online magazine powermetal.de praises the sound of the album as " organic punchy " and " completely unaffected " and sees Static Tensions stylistically in the intersection of Doom Metal, Psychedelic, Classic Rock and Punk.