![]() ![]() ![]() would be rattling out a barnstormer of a rock album in 2023, seemingly out of the blue? (In recent years Kip Winger has been busy composing, performing and conducting classical music, with considerable success.) Not that I’d written off Kip’s ability to rock when the mood takes him. He has always been a musical tour de force, since way back in his Alice Cooper days, when he, along with the equally phenomenal Kane Roberts on guitar, redefined the Alice band’s look and sound. I won’t pontificate at length about Seven. If you’re already a Winger fan, you’ll love it. If you’re a rock fan who has never encountered Winger before, chances are you’ll love it too. And even metal fans who’re too up their own pretentious arses to admit to liking Winger will almost all love it, even if they don’t acknowledge this to others. It’s a cracking album loaded with catchy tunes, big hooks, outrageous solos and masterfully crafted rock-cum-metal. He’s done it again! For the fourth time in eight years, Sakis Tolis has topped my album-of-the-year list. He did it with his band Rotting Christ in 20 (with the records Rituals and The Heretics respectively), then he did it as a solo artist in 2022 (with Among the Fires of Hell), and now he’s done it again with his χ ξ ς’ project (which, like Rotting Christ, is ostensibly a Sakis solo vehicle). From start to finish, The Seven Seals of the Apocalypse-(Revelation 5:7) sounds like a follow-up to Rotting Christ’s The Heretics album – the atmospherics, iconography and lyrical themes are heavily related. Also, this new release has certain apocalyptic parallels to my novelette Revelation Was Wrong (although Sakis’s lyrics make no mention of zombie burds, Buckfast tonic wine or an alcoholic Scottish prophet known as Tam the Bammus). The distinctive sound is instantly recognisable as this Greek master craftsman at work, showcasing the skills he’s honed through decades of dedicated metal delivery. No one else does it quite like him. χ ξ ς’ – The Seven Seals of the Apocalypse-(Revelation 5:7) ![]()
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