Loviatar - Eternal Sons (EP)

LOVIATAR - Eternal Sons EP
2011
Indie

Although I review full albums from time to time, this blog is mostly intended to review EPs, especially canadian bands of the extended doom family. Here is a stellar one that falls right into these criteria.

This EP comes in a carefully assembled cardboard package, along with the lyrics. This CD is limited to 100 copies, but it's my general feeling that it's written "soon on vinyl" all over it. Fingers crossed.

A teaser to a promising album, Eternal Sons has two songs: Eternal Famine (5:50) and Sons of War (6:12). Epic titles for epic songs. Loviatar can't hide its influences from a variety of bands and styles as diverse as post-metal, crust metal and stoner/doom metal alike. The vibe is catchy, overwhelming, rich and addictive. Any High on Fire or Pentagram fan would get on his feet and follow the leader when JD (guitars and vocals) repeats "Arise! Sons of War." And if that style of music ain't your thing, the clean vocals and the excellent production should do the trick.

On that level, this is another production that came out of Pebble Studios (Produced by Bond) AND Yogi's Meatlocker. If that doesn't ring a bell read my Unavowed review below and you'll soon find out that some of the finest treasures come out of this cave.

So who is Loviatar? From a crowd point of view, they've been around and opening for the right bands in Ottawa and Montreal since 2010: Skeletonwitch, Barn Burner, Titan, The Great Sabatini, Blood Ceremony, Iron Man, Revelation, Collider, Alaskan, Red Fang, Mares of Thrace, Biipiigwan, etc... You get it.

Through these shows and the Eternal Sons teaser EP, Loviatar has created some expectations towards a future album. We want more guys.

www.loviatardoom.com