Seven Sisters Star Pt. 2

I really like Seven Sisters, but it seems that like most newer metal bands and albums, I rarely go back an revisit them. I'll be really stoked on a record and listen to it a lot during its release year, but then once we turn that corner into January, its like my brain resets and I forget about it. Because of this, you'd think that I could live a life of contentment and spend the rest of my life listening to music that I already own... but no, I'm obsessed with finding and listening to something new... so of course I needed the new Seven Sisters album even though I own three other full length albums by the band and haven't listened to any of them more than ten times. This is my curse.

Seven Sisters is one of the only newer metal bands that both Jeff and I see eye to eye on. He tends to avoid anything that didn't originate in the 70's or 80's, but Seven Sisters has such a great old school New Wave Of British Heavy Metal sound, that even he can't ignore them. While I wasn't sure that I was going to pay any attention to the band's newest album, Shadow Of A Fallen Star, Pt 2, once Jeff mentioned that he'd ordered the colored vinyl, I had to jump in and make sure that I got my hands on one too.

I was a bit intimidated when the record arrived and I realized that there are only 4 songs here, and the last song, Andromeda Descending, clocks in over 20 minutes. I thought that it might get a bit dull with some slow atmospheric bits or some widdly guitar wanking, but surprisingly this entire record is just great straight forward metal. Seven Sisters still feel like they were lifted right out of the NWOBHM movement in the early 80's and I'm here for it.

Once again, the Seven Sisters vinyl looks so good.