Tanith - classic rock heavy metal lives

Tanith

Voyage

Metal Blade Records

21 April 2023

The most prominent member of this British-American band is guitarist and vocalist Russ Tippins, active since 1979 with New Wave of British Heavy Metal band Satan (later named Blind Fury, then Pariah and then Satan again). They have Cindy Maynard on vocals and bass, and Keith Robinson on drums. Tanith is classic rock in the style of the 1970s, something in between the metal of late 70s Judas Priest and Scorpions, and the prog rock of Rush, Budgie, Deep Purple or Uriah Heep and other bands like that. They are certainly not headbanging metal, but they do a good job of rocking, and avoiding going off the deep end with the prog, avoiding long, meandering self-indulgence.

Tanith does not sound perfect. You know how 1970s bands do not sound perfect but real when you hear a Led Zeppelin, Mountain, Sir Lord Baltimore, Heart or Black Sabbath song? This is like that, not perfectly and clinically robotized. It sounds human and it is on purpose. Truth be told, if you listen to mostly computer heavy metal music, it takes a few listens for your ears, so distorted by the Milli Vanilli-style fraudulence of metal rock, to adjust to Tanith. In short, you can tell that this band intends to play this music live. On their debut album back in 2019 they sounded like they were on to a good thing. Indeed, they are in 2023.

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