Bygone by Bygone

Mainline Riders, Air Dancers, and Psychic Warriors – BYGONE's debut album out now via Svart Records. LP & CD sold at Svart's webstore:

https://www.svartrecords.com/en/product/bygone-bygone/13776

Boston based heavy metal act Bygone's self-titled debut album lands on December 12th via Svart Records, ready to soundtrack your cosmic explorations of an imagined past. You could call it hard rock or heavy metal, but on this LP it's probably closest to Métal Hurlant. This is hardly the first slab of molten black and silver forged by the members of the band, who have previously traveled the Iommic byways of configurations like Magic Circle, Blazon Rite, Concilium, Witchtrial, and Missionary Work. Here, they join together to forge new routes through the whirlpool where matter vanishes.

The album’s lead single Take Me Home builds a galloping call and response between dual guitar leads and nimble keyboard lines, while its lost-in-space lyrics yearn for a more pastoral and earthbound existence. An outsider answer to Uriah Heep's John Lawton period or maybe a Taarna-less variation on the Bouchard brothers' "The Pact."

The visions of the night reveal the truth of light on Shadow Rising, the second single from the album. Propelled by a gallop that echoes the interplay of UFO’s late 70's Way/Parker and colored by Marshall stacked blunt force in tandem with gliding Model D leads on keys, Bygone gives freedom to your brain to allow your astral plane to exist. For 5-minutes enter the distant dream of the Shadow Rising and reach the other side.

Through the album, the group journeys out-of-body with cuts like Lightspeed Nights, Into the Gleam, and Fire In You Fire In Me, drifting through degenerate stars and iron suns. Hear throughout taut Pete Way-inspired underpinnings, keyboard flourishes reminiscent of Don Airy's late '70s work, and vocals that recall the emotion and grit of Buffalo's Dave Tice. Bygone is an infinite cosmos in a 12" jacket, a heavy metal that feels not so much of the historical past as it does the never-quite-was.