VIOLENCE FOG / JERUSALEM

This is the reunion of two albums, one is from Violence Fog, the other from Jerusalem. Both bands represent the bombastic heavy facet of krautrock next to bands such as Pancake, Zarathustra, Spermull, Irmin's way (...) Violence Fog delivers absolutely kick ass, highly inspired powerful rockin' compositions. Musically their own musical style oscillates between standardised 70's hard rockin sessions and proggy melodic interludes. It features passionate groovy vocals, agressive epic guitar riffages and astonishingly catchy melodies. On the other side Jerusalem plays a strangey-frenetic heavy rock punctuated by solid guitar sequences, obsessional epic harmonies, cryptic lyrical passages. The proggy tendances (notably due to the unusual guitar solo breaks) remain discreet but always efficiently delivered and oftenly accompanied by a primal evil psychedelic twist. Nothing really challenging but warmly recommended for kraut-heads and those who are into vintage-heavy progressive rock.