Album review: Here Lies Man – Ritual Divination — Kerrang!
LA quintet Here Lies Man deliver a fourth dose of Sabbathy Afro-beat on Ritual Divination… Words: Phil Alexander “We’re very conscious of how the rhythms service the riffs. Tony Iommi’s innovation was to make the riff the organising principle of a song. We are taking that same approach but employing a different organising principle: For Iommi it was the blues, for us it comes directly from Africa,” declares Here Lies Man guitarist/vocalist Marcos Garcia, discussing his band’s musical mission to marry Black Sabbath’s heavy fuzz with the indestructible rhythms of Afro-...
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