9.5/10 From Sweden, AMBASSADORS OF THE SUN brings us one of the most complex and best-designed albums of 2020: “Orbiting a Dead Star”. It is not easy to describe its sound because it mixes different elements: on the one hand heavy, progressive and doom metal, psychedelia from the 60s and some other grunge touch and…
The bucolic atmospheres that introduce Disciple, the opening piece of the Swedish debut album “Ambassadors of the Sun”, soon give way to a crescendo of emotions that distinguishes the entire work. And the fielding, to strike from the first listening, in addition to the coherence and personality with which such a significant number of influences…
What can I write about this sassy debut from Swedish quartet, Ambassadors of the Sun? It´s heavy, it´s dark and it´s fairly face melting, with power chords and licks aplenty. Most of the vocals are suitably angry and when an album kicks off with a nine-minute intro track, featuring time signature and style changes, you…
Grade: 9.0 I would say 2020 was not at all lost in terms of good releases. However, I noticed that few new bands risked releasing their debut albums amidst the chaos of this year. And isn’t it that, at 48 in the second half, I come across this pearl from Sweden? With a few years…
9/10 When ambitious press releases come to us that say something like “it brings together musical styles and influences from the sixties to the present”, I inevitably get left behind. It is usually the postal code for disappointment. Fortunately here is not at all what we have. In fact, I don’t even know if the…
Hardly incorporated into a single genre, these Swedes can even be classified as contemporary prog metal, but we ended up experiencing something more than that with the band including riffs that can range from punk to doom metal. With the robustness of heavy rock riffs, leads full of anticipation and a bombastic drums, the quartet…
8/10 Sweet home Farlun…right? NO? Sorry I am knee-deep in this Swedish Rock music again. AMBASSADORS OF THE SUN are, of course from Farlun, Sweden and, of course, they know what they are doing. This is partly retro-oriented 70`s worshipping Heavy Metal with hints of progressive music and parts groove Metal (even moments of QUEENS…
Hailing from Sweden, this is a slice of Retro Progressive Metal. It has a sound that is reminiscent of a golden era of Rock yet it is bang up to date and really does push the boundaries of the more technical side of metal. There are definite hints of Groove and Stoner here along with…
9/10 Ambassadors of the Sun is a new supergroup from central Dalecarlia in Sweden. The debut album is a technically melodic creation that is both heavy and beautiful. Heavy riffs are mixed with complex drums, calm parts and full on metal. The verbal is alternately a lullaby or an alarm clock. Mattias Hedeby / Rockbladet.se…
9/10 A band from Dalecarlia in Sweden that did everything right. This is how you break through! Psychedelic rock, stoner and death-metal mix well with a precision-rich musicality and as a listener you just want more and more. A better debut than this must be impossible to achieve. Impressive! André Millom / Rockbladet.se Skivpanelen listar…